tendril

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Tendril cracks run down walls threatening to crumble and cave.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2016

He has always been a philosopher, but only his two last volumes of essays—Ways of Nature, and Leaf and Tendril show the deeper currents in his life.

From Rambles with John Burroughs by Loach, Robert John de

Tendril, a thread-shaped organ used for climbing, 40.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

But He who better knew their need Laid its fair blossoms low;— Between their souls and heaven's clear light Tendril nor leaf might grow.

From Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 by Whittelsey, Mrs. A. G.

Tendril, ten′dril, n. a slender, spiral shoot of a plant by which it attaches itself for support.—adj. clasping or climbing.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various