tendrilous

adj

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.”

   “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.”

2. Having many tendrils.

   “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.”

   “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.”