tendril
IPA: tˈɛndrɪɫ
noun
- (botany) A thin, spirally coiling stem that attaches a plant to its support.
- (zoology) A hair-like tentacle.
adjective
- Having the shape or properties of a tendril; thin and coiling; entwining.
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Examples of "tendril" in Sentences
- The tendril insertion is sub apical.
- Tendrils appear opposite the leaf stalk.
- In older plants, the tendril can be almost woody.
- A small tendril is the intelligence part of the vine.
- The colony spread out a thin tendril and consumed each.
- Tendrils are similarly hairy to the underside of the midrib.
- A pair of tendrils often appear near the base of the petiole.
- The tendrils of aerial pitchers are usually coiled in the middle.
- Tendrils and a few shorter tentacles dangle from the bottom of the head.
- The flat surface of the arms is decorated all over with filigree tendrils.
- It is characterised by a peltate tendril attachment and conspicuous indumentum.
- Violet noticed a tendril of black hair peeking out of the comforter, and one white hand.
- But then a tendril of irritation reached him, a fragment of emotion carried into his mind by an empathic projection—a strong empathic projection.
- It is my Sacred Heart … It is (metaphorically) wearing my heart on my sleeve … It is a tendril unfurling … It is a knot untied … It is a release …
- The companions wandered beneath the staring eye of the sun, following Big Zojja, as Little Zojja used her cockpit cage to pick up a telltale tendril of magic.
- You correctly point out that the Black Walnut has compound leaves but then incorrectly identify the leaflets as leaves, and call a tendril what is actually the rachis of the leaf.
- You wake to find a wet snow has sneaked in after midnight wrapping the branches with an airy gauze, spangled with diamonds so that every snarly twig and tendril is an epiphany of white etched against the purplish-blue of an undecided sky.
- I begin to think that one of the commonest means of transition is the same individual plant having the same part in different states: thus Corydalis claviculata, if you look to one leaf, may be called a tendril-bearer; if you look to another leaf it may be called a leaf-climber.
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