Feature of a climbing vine

Usage examples of tendril.

For the first time, the adrift and restless drow felt a tendril of herself reach out and take root in this strange land.

A multitude of anfractuous cracks spread out from the rim of the segment as though tendrils of frost were gripping the tube.

Some tendrils which consist of modified leaves--organs in all ordinary cases strongly diaheliotropic--have been rendered apheliotropic, and their tips crawl into any dark crevice.

Distinction between heliotropism and the effects of light on the periodicity of the movements of leaves--Heliotropic movements of Beta, Solanum, Zea, and Avena--Heliotropic movements towards an obscure light in Apios, Brassica, Phalaris, Tropaeolum, and Cassia--Apheliotropic movements of tendrils of Bignonia--Of flowerpeduncles of Cyclamen--Burying of the pods--Heliotropism and apheliotropism modified forms of circumnutation--Steps by which one movement is converted into the other Transversalheliotropismus or diaheliotropism influenced by epinasty, the weight of the part and apogeotropism--Apogeotropism overcome during the middle of the day by diaheliotropism--Effects of the weight of the blades of cotyledons--So called diurnal sleep--Chlorophyll injured by intense light--Movements to avoid intense light.

Elnora standing in the arbour entrance made a perfect picture, framed in green leaves and tendrils.

Cold tendrils escaped from his fingertips to surround her neck with a kind of bendable steel collar.

The peninsulas sprouted grasping tendrils, thigh-thick at the trunk but narrowing to the dimensions of plant fronds, and then narrowing further, bifurcating into lacy, fernlike hazes of awesome complexity.

The first frosts, on the other hand, shrivel the bines of white bryony, which part and hang separated, and in the spring a fresh bine pushes up with greyish green leaves and tendrils feeling for support.

Thick tendrils of ooze burst from the center of the blob on her shoulder and wrapped themselves around her waist and legs, dragging Tash down to her knees.

His ear tendrils instantly caught the id-vibrations from the contents of the bowland he gave it not even a second glance.

The King received us in a lightly furnished reception room, which had a dado with sinuous tendrils of foliage, its colouring and form exactly like one at the Marcellinus villa.

Even now the deuced tendrils crept out of her chignon and tickled her face.

It sniffed them closely, snapped at their genitals, and was slapped smartly by the thick tendril that the dryad wore as guardian of her privacy.

He struck the dryad with her tendril and she screamed and loosed her grip on his penis.

The patterns he had learned were safely ensconced in the neural tendrils of his fixed memory He probably could learn to use them.