tendril

A few weeks later, a wispy tendril starts out, climbing up the wooden support.

From Salon ● May 9, 2026

A few painstaking moments later and he has freed his bounty—a small caterpillar perhaps an inch long, caked in earth with a reddish tendril of fungus sprouting from its head.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 4, 2024

There, poking up through the soil, was a tiny green tendril.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2023

A twisty tendril of vapor in white-to-red ombre could be seen snaking behind a bright white light in parts of South Korea’s sky Friday evening.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 30, 2022

I wrap a tendril around a rod to give her the perfect coil, and mix two skin tones together—seashell white and a dark citrine brown.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

"There's an intestine detached from the rest of the body, surrounded by tendrils of blood vessels from the yolk."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

So-called “dark matter” clumps around galaxies and snakes throughout space in long tendrils.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

The tendrils of the tightly strung material connect, both physically and metaphorically, the wartime experiences documented in the photocopied pages scattered about, but they also bring to mind out-of-control cell growth and cancerous disease.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

There are still tendrils of pleasure and joy left on the internet, sure.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2025

Here and there, tendrils of its curling white churn seemed to rise up and peer about before collapsing again into the tidal flow like whitecaps sucked back into the surf.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor