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单词 tendril
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tendriln.

/ˈtɛndrɪl/
Forms: Also 1500s -yll, -elle, 1500s–1700s -el, 1600s -ell, 1700s -ill.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; apparently < Latin tendĕre, French tendre to stretch; in its actual form and sense only in English.Cf. French tendrillon bud, tender sprout or shoot, diminutive of tendron in same sense, also figurative a ‘bud’, a young girl; also cartilage; which Hatzfeld & Darmesteter refer to tendre adj. tender. But Paré (16th cent.) took tendron as synonymous with capréole tendril, clasper (‘La vigne par ses tendrons ou capréoles tortues embrasse toutes choses’), and Latin capreolus (rendered by Elyot 1538 ‘tendrell’) was by R. Estienne, 1536, glossed by tendon, a derivative of Latin tendĕre, French tendre to stretch. There was thus in 16th cent. French some confusion between tendon and tendron, which appears to have influenced the English use of tendril and associated it with tendre to stretch rather than with tendre tender. See also Weekley in Trans. Philol. Soc. 1909.
1.
a. A slender thread-like organ or appendage of a plant (consisting of a modified stem, branch, flower-stalk, leaf, or part of a leaf), often growing in a spiral form, which stretches out and attaches itself to or twines round some other body so as to support the plant. (Distinguished from a twining stem by not bearing leaves.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun] > tendril or twining shoot
tenaclec1500
tendril1538
clasp1577
clasper1577
winder1577
capreol1578
taglet1578
twine1579
string1585
trail1597
tress1605
nervelet1648
cirrus1708
clavicle1725
twister1799
bine1808
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Capreolus,..the tendrell of a vyne, whiche wyndeth diuers ways, called also Pampinus.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lxxxviii. 441 Litle claspers or tendrelles, where~withal it taketh holdefast vpon hedges, trees, poles, and rayles.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tendron,..a tendrell, or the tender branch, or sprig of a plant.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 307 Her..tresses..in wanton ringlets wav'd As the Vine curles her tendrils . View more context for this quotation
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 175 A couple of vine leaves, tied round with a tendril.
1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 224 Cirrus. Tendrils or claspers when young are usually put forth in a straight direction; but they presently become spiral.
1858 E. Lankester & W. B. Carpenter Veg. Physiol. (new ed.) §538 Nearly all the plants of the group are climbers, and most of them support themselves by tendrils.
b. transferred. Something resembling a tendril of a plant: as, a slender branch of a vein; a curl or ringlet of hair. (Cf. also tendril-footed adj. at Compounds 2b.)
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the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > thread-like object
thread1398
filament1594
film1597
tendril1615
fibre1827
filamentule1837
fibril1876
threadlet1882
the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > curled condition or formation > curled thing or part
curl?1615
tendril1615
curling1678
quirl1761
pirl1880
squirl1979
the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > curl > [noun]
feak1548
lovelock1592
crisple1594
curl1604
cockle1608
crisp1638
ringlet1645
cockera1653
heartbreaker1654
moustache1662
confidenta1685
cruchea1685
passagerea1685
favourite1690
wimpler1724
cannon1774
whisker1786
favori1801
curlet1803
tendril1814
sausage curl1828
spit-curl1831
crimp1855
curdle1860
number sices1861
whiskerette1880
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 79 Sometime also seueral tendrils are communicated vnto it from the spermatical veines.
1814 Ld. Byron Lara ii. xxi. 1154 The glossy tendrils of his raven hair.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede III. v. xliii. 124 The dark tendrils of hair..the rounded cheek and the pouting lips.
c. figurative, esp. in reference to a ‘clinging’ affection or attachment.
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the mind > possession > retaining > [noun] > clinging to something > that which
tendril1841
1841 R. W. Emerson Man Reformer in Lect. in Wks. (1906) II. 238 Inextricable seem to be the twinings and tendrils of this evil.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxii. 62 Her own earnest nature threw out its tendrils, and wound itself around the majestic book.
1891 T. Hardy Tess in Graphic 8 Aug. 163 Her foolish soul sent back tendrils of yearning towards it [sc. her father's house].
2. Used to render French tendron bud (see tendron n.) in figurative sense ‘young girl’. Obsolete.
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the world > people > person > child > girl > [noun]
maiden-childeOE
maidenOE
maidc1275
maid-childc1275
wenchc1290
thernec1300
lassc1325
maidenkinc1330
child-womana1382
girlc1400
pucelle1439
maidkin1440
mawther1440
mop1466
woman-child?1515
bonnea1529
urchina1535
kinchin-mort1567
dandiprat1582
prill1587
sluta1592
little girl1603
maggie1603
tendril1603
squall1607
childa1616
filly1616
vriester1652
miss1668
gilpie1720
lassie1725
laddess1768
jeune fillea1777
bitch1785
girly?1786
gal1795
ladyling1807
missikin1815
colleen1828
girleen1833
snowdrop1833
pinafore1836
chica1843
fillette1847
charity-girl1848
urchiness1852
Mädchen1854
gel1857
pusill1884
backfisch1888
girly-girly1888
cliner1895
tittie1918
weeny1929
bobby-soxer1944
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. ix. 558 Continually stored with young tendrels or lasses, to keepe his old-frozen limbs warme a nights.
1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 313 Hee sends this tendrell to schoole againe.

Compounds

General attributive.
C1. General attributive.
a. Having or bearing tendrils
tendril brier n.
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1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii VI. Table LVII Triangular Tendril Bryar... A very odd Anomalous Plant.
tendril hop n.
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1757 J. Dyer Fleece i. 7 The curling growth Of tendril hops, that flaunt upon their poles.
tendril vine n.
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1743 P. Francis tr. Horace Epodes xv. 3 When round my Neck as curls the Tendril-Vine—(Loose are its Curlings, if compar'd to thine).
b. Belonging to a tendril, resembling or consisting of a tendril.
tendril career n.
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1957 C. Day Lewis Pegasus 45 Or too much reason chill the air For your tendril career.
tendril finger n.
ΚΠ
1929 Oxf. Poetry 5 The tendril fingers groping for the bright Eternal beauty.
tendril hand n.
ΚΠ
1939 D. Thomas Map of Love 14 Shall she receive a bellyful of weeds And bear those tendril hands I touch across The agonized, two seas.
tendril-hold n.
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1967 J. Stallworthy Almond Tree 11 I am called to the cot to see your focus shift, take tendril-hold on a shaft of sun.
tendril-ring n.
tendril-talon n.
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1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II 150 Long horrent thorns his mossy legs surround, And tendril-talons root him to the ground.
C2. Objective, instrumental, parasynthetic.
a.
tendril-bearer n.
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1872 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 6) vii. 196 Gradations..between simple twiners and tendril-bearers.
tendril-climber n.
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1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 197 A distinction is drawn between Tendril-climbers (as Vitis) and Stem-climbers (as Phaseolus, Humulus, Convolvulus, &c.).
b.
tendril-footed adj.
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1844 W. B. Carpenter Animal Physiol. ii. 94 The class Cirrhipoda, or tendril-footed animals.
tendril-like adj.
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1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 146/2 The tendril-like branches of the arteria profunda.
c.
tendril-work n.
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1896 Westm. Gaz. 20 Oct. 10/2 Framed in Romanesque tendril work.

Derivatives

ˈtendril v. intransitive to curl like a tendril.Apparently an isolated use.
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1894 S. R. Crockett Lilac Sunbonnet 18 Fair hair, crisping and tendrilling over her brow.
tendriˈliferous adj. [-ferous comb. form] bearing tendrils.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [adjective] > having tendrils
pampina1398
cirrous1658
capreolate1737
tendrilled1806
cirriferous1813
cirrose1813
tendrilly1863
tendriliferous1900
1900 W. Wallace in Ann. Bot. Dec. 639 A tendriliferous liane.
ˈtendrilled adj. /-ɪld/ (also tendriled) having a tendril or tendrils (in quot. 1845 transferred curly).
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the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [adjective] > having tendrils
pampina1398
cirrous1658
capreolate1737
tendrilled1806
cirriferous1813
cirrose1813
tendrilly1863
tendriliferous1900
the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > curly
crispc900
crullc1300
curledc1380
crispy1398
crispedc1400
encrispedc1420
lockeredc1440
locker?a1500
curly1774
tendrilled1806
kinky1844
ruffly1859
buckling1861
peppercorn1868
1806 J. Galpine Synoptical Compend Brit. Bot. §319 Fumaria..stem climbing: petioles tendrilled.
1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 126 A[ntirrhinum] Cirrhosa. Tendriled Toad Flax.
1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 273 Some young thing with tiny hands, And rosy cheeks, and flossy tendrilled locks.
ˈtendrilly adj.
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the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [adjective] > having tendrils
pampina1398
cirrous1658
capreolate1737
tendrilled1806
cirriferous1813
cirrose1813
tendrilly1863
tendriliferous1900
1863 ‘Holme Lee’ Annis Warleigh III. 25 A Virginian creeper twined its thousands of tendrilly sprays up the rustic pillars.
ˈtendrilous adj. full of tendrils; resembling a tendril.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [adjective] > like a thread
reaminga1398
threadish1578
thready1597
filamentous1682
fibrous1707
filiform1758
thread-like1774
fibry1802
filiformed1851
tendrilous1857
fibrine1881
1857 J. G. Wood Common Objects Sea Shore 58 The long, curling, tendrilous appendages..affix themselves to sea-weeds..and..anchor the egg firmly.

Draft additions 1993

ˈtendrillar adj. resembling a tendril or tendrils.
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1928 Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dict. Eng. Lang.
1976 Seenappa & Nath in K. L. Chadha Proc. 3rd Internat. Symp. Sub-Trop. & Trop. Hort. I. 186 The yield data of the plants with tendrillar flowers were compared to those with normal flowers in the same variety.
1987 Research & Devel. Jan. 60/1 The material, called tendrillar carbonaceous material, is a by-product of a TRW technique called the B extraction and concentration (Beacon) process.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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