TENDRIL


Meaning of TENDRIL in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈten-drəl ]

noun

Etymology: probably modification of Middle French tendron bud, cartilage, alteration of Old French tenrum, from Vulgar Latin * tenerumen, from Latin tener tender — more at tender

Date: 1538

1. : a leaf, stipule, or stem modified into a slender spirally coiling sensitive organ serving to attach a climbing plant to its support

2. : something suggestive of a tendril

hair hanging in tendril s

creeping tendril s of fog

• ten·driled or ten·drilled -drəld adjective

• ten·dril·ous -drə-ləs adjective

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tendril 1

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