tendril
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drɪl noun Botany.
a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
Origin:
1530–40; earlier tendrel, variant (perhaps by dissimilation) of Middle English tendren, tendron < Middle French tendron shoot, sprout, cartilage
1530–40; earlier tendrel, variant (perhaps by dissimilation) of Middle English tendren, tendron < Middle French tendron shoot, sprout, cartilage
Related forms
ten·dril·lar, ten·dril·ous, adjective
ten·dril·ly, adjective
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tendril (ˈtɛndrɪl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a specialized threadlike part of a leaf or stem that attaches climbing plants to a support by twining or adhering |
| 2. | something resembling a tendril, such as a wisp of hair |
| [C16: perhaps from Old French tendron tendril (confused with Old French tendron bud), from Medieval Latin tendō | |
| 'tendrillar | |
| —adj | |
| 'tendrilous | |
| —adj | |
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Tendril
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| tendril (těn'drəl) Pronunciation Key
A slender, coiling plant part, often a modified leaf or leaf part, that helps support the stem of some climbing angiosperms by clinging to or winding around an object. Peas, squash, and grapes produce tendrils. |
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Example sentences
Chips of white paint flaking off the window sashes and a tendril of ivy swaying in over the sill.
The tables had been set up in the main room in the shape of a curving tendril.
It reacts to too much shade by sending out a tendril toward whatever light it can find.
As a watermelon ripens and develops its mature color, check the curly tendril that emerges from the stem end regularly.
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