tendrilous

comparative more tendrilous · superlative most tendrilous

1. Tendril-like.

   The long, curling, tendrilous appendages speedily affix themselves to sea-weeds, or other appropriate substances, and from their form and consistence anchor the egg firmly.

   1866, John George Wood, The Common Objects of the Sea Shore: Including Hints for an Aquarium

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   It was huge, the first thing you saw when you walked in the room, made from a flimsy cut of wood, overcarved with gaudy, tendrilous designs and studded with glued-on florets.

   2007, Catherine Landis, Harvest: A Novel, →ISBN

2. Having many tendrils.

   This creeping tendrilous plant has a leaf like an obtuse rhomb, rather downy, and having a chilli-shaped aculeated pod, full of a long silky fibre adhering to the seeds.

   1868, James Chapman, Travels in the Interior of South Africa, page 74

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   These frightful precipices were partially concealed from us by a treacherous growth of under-brush, sea-side grape, with tendrilous and parasitical plants pendant from the loftier trees, as at intervals there shot up a gru-gru, or a gree-gree, another variety of the palm tribe.

   1852, Charles William Day, Five Years' Residence in the West Indies, pages 98–99