capreolate

Having a tendril or tendrils.

Adjective

  1. Having a tendril or tendrils.
    • The Section Grandiflora, representing the Agraric and Capreolata of Hammar, is readily subdivided into three subsections, as is done by Haussknecht, by eliminating, as Murales, from the well-marked Agrarian and...

Origin

Borrowed from Latin capreolātus, from capreolus (“wild goat, tendril”) + -ātus, from caper (“goat”); see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French capréolé.

Forms

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