tendril
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The tendriled thing that spread across the aluminum frame was nothing other than linty fuzz that had been knocked off the backside of the blinds.
From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2021
And yet that ancient rocker, tendriled like a vine from the wine-heavy hills around Vienna, had a brisk, bald-bottomed rival in Charles Eames's up-to-the-minute en try in molded Fiberglas and wire.
From Time Magazine Archive
Think what Bill Gates, say, would pay for some tendriled, purply lobed piece of Venusian exotica to put in a pot in his greenhouse.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
There is another tendriled plant, the passion-vine; and this has a cirrus or tendril quite of a different kind from that we have just examined.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 Volume 18, New Series, September 11, 1852 by Chambers, William
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