Usually means: Slender thread-like plant appendage.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. tendril: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tendril: Merriam-Webster
  3. tendril: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tendril: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tendril: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tendril: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tendril, tendril: Wordnik
  8. tendril: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tendril: Wiktionary
  10. tendril: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tendril: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tendril: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tendril: Dictionary.com
  14. tendril: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tendril: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tendril: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tendril: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tendril: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tendril: Rhymezone
  20. Tendril: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tendril: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. tendril: FreeDictionary.org
  23. tendril: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tendril: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tendril: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

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  1. Wine Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tendril)

▸ noun:  (botany) A thin, spirally coiling stem that attaches a plant to its support.
▸ noun:  (zoology) A hair-like tentacle.
▸ adjective:  Having the shape or properties of a tendril; thin and coiling; entwining.

Similar:
tenacle, stem, spire, spiricle, tigellus, clasper, twiner, leafstalk, bine, stalk, more...

Opposite:
root

Types:
ivy, morning glory, creeper, vine, climbing vine, climbing plant, climbing shrub, more...

Phrases:
tendril climbing, tendril perversion, tendril of hair, more...

Adjectives:
long, thin, single, loose, little, young, twisted, branched, delicate, last, small

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Similar:
tenacle, stem, spire, spiricle, tigellus, clasper, twiner, leafstalk, bine, stalk, more...

Opposite:
root

Types:
ivy, morning glory, creeper, vine, climbing vine, climbing plant, climbing shrub, more...

Phrases:
tendril climbing, tendril perversion, tendril of hair, more...

Adjectives:
long, thin, single, loose, little, young, twisted, branched, delicate, last, small

Colors:
    green,     olive,     sage,     fern,     lime, more...



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