tendril

[US]/'tendrɪl/
[UK]/'tɛndrəl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. (Botany) a slender, spirally coiling part of a plant, specifically a vine or a climbing plant

Phrases & Collocations

delicate tendril

green tendril

curly tendril

Example Sentences

tendrils trifurcate, sometimes tip of lower tendril branch with vestiges of abortive inflorescences.

tropical woody tendril-climbing vines

tendrils biforked or sometimes unbranched.

Compound dichasium leaf-opposed, with a tendril at base;

tendrils bifurcate.Leaves bipinnate, or pinnate on upper branches, basal pinnae of bipinnate leaves usually 3-foliolate;

An evergreen, tendril-bearing woody vine(Bignonia capreolata), native chiefly to the southeast United States and having showy red-orange, trumpet-shaped flowers.

8. An evergreen, tendril-bearing woody vine(Bignonia capreolata), native chiefly to the southeast United States and having showy red-orange, trumpet-shaped flowers.

Tendril unbranched or bifurcate. Inflorescence usually a polychasium. Seeds elliptic, obovoid-elliptic, or obtriangular, surface smooth, corrugated, or with strumose protuberance or ribs.

Real-world Examples

Some have delicate tendrils streaming away from them.

Source: Crash Course Astronomy

So the former disc-shaped galaxy metamorphosizes into a celestial jellyfish sporting long blue tendrils.

Source: Science in 60 Seconds Listening Collection July 2014

It had a big wet patch on it. There were fine tendrils of yellow pus on it as well.

Source: Stephen King on Writing

These can create lovely sheets, tendrils, and filaments in nebulae as well.

Source: Crash Course Astronomy

Will the clematis stray down, bend to us; tendril and spray clutch and cling?

Source: Four Quartets

Such a galaxy has a disk of stars, like our Milky Way—plus long blue tendrils.

Source: Science in 60 Seconds Listening Collection July 2014

It surrounds the Sun, filaments and tendrils extending into the sky, an incredibly beautiful sight.

Source: Crash Course Astronomy

I tuck one of the escaped tendrils of my hair behind my ear as I pretend she doesn't intimidate me.

Source: Fifty Shades of Grey (Audiobook Excerpt)

The breeze was still light, but it blew tendrils of my hair around my face, and that tickled a bit.

Source: Twilight: Eclipse

SCP-2521 is a creature made entirely of strange, black tendrils that envelop and smother the creature’s prey.

Source: World Atlas of Wonders

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