tendril

(noun)

a thin, spirally-coiling stem that attaches a plant to its support

Related Terms

  • rhizome
  • stolon
  • thorn
  • tuber
  • cladode
  • bulbil
  • corm
  • bulb

Examples of tendril in the following topics:

  • Plant Responses to Wind and Touch

    • Tendrils are one example of this.
    • A tendril is a specialized stem, leaf, or petiole with a threadlike shape that is used by climbing plants for support.The meristematic region of tendrils is very touch sensitive; light touch will evoke a quick coiling response.
    • Application of jasmonic acid is sufficient to trigger tendril coiling without a mechanical stimulus.
    • Tendrils of a redvine produce auxin in response to touching a support stick and then transfer the auxin to non-touching cells.
  • Stem Modifications

    • Tendrils are slender, twining strands that enable a plant (like the buckwheat vine) to seek support by climbing on other surfaces.
    • Found in southeastern United States, (a) buckwheat vine (Brunnichia ovata) is a weedy plant that climbs with the aid of tendrils.
  • Sponge Communities

    • The tendrils of new sponges wrap around spicules of older, deceased sponges.
    • The tendrils will later form the basal plate of the adult sponge that firmly anchors the animal to the reef.
  • Romanesque Architecture: The Church of Saint-Lazare

    • Specifically, Gislebertus created capitals that used the tendrils of the actual Corinthian capital to create an architectural frame for the narrative of the story to develop.
  • Anglo-Saxon and Irish Art

    • La Tène is "a highly stylized curvilinear art based mainly on classical vegetable and foliage motifs such as leafy palmette forms, vines, tendrils, and lotus flowers together with spirals, S-scrolls, lyre, and trumpet shapes. " It remains uncertain whether some of the most notable objects found from the La Tène period were made in Ireland or elsewhere (as far away as Egypt in some cases).
  • Architecture in the Hellenistic Period

    • The capital consists of a double layer of acanthus leaves and stylized plant tendrils that curl up towards the abacus in the shape of a scroll or volute.
  • Classical Greek Architecture

    • They were shaped like a bell-shaped mixing bowl and ornamented with a double row of acanthus leaves above which rose voluted tendrils splayed.
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