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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ten•dril /ˈtɛndrɪl/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Botanya threadlike stem of climbing plants that twines round another body, so as to support the plant.
- something thin and curly like smoke rising upward:thin tendrils of smoke rising from his pipe.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ten•dril (ten′dril),USA pronunciation n. [Bot.]- Botanya 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.
- Middle French tendron shoot, sprout, cartilage
- earlier tendrel, variant (perh. by dissimilation) of Middle English tendren, tendron 1530–40
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: tendril /ˈtɛndrɪl/ n - a specialized threadlike part of a leaf or stem that attaches climbing plants to a support by twining or adhering
Etymology: 16th Century: perhaps from Old French tendron tendril (confused with Old French tendron bud), from Medieval Latin tendō tendon |