Tendril

Definition: Tendril

Tendril

Noun

1. Slender stemlike structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for support.

Date "tendril" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Biology & Biotechnology	The slender, leafless organ by which a vine shoot attaches itself to a support. Source: European Union. (references)
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In botany, a tendril is a specialized stem, leaf or petiole with a threadlike shape that is used by climbing plants for support and attachment, generally by twining around whatever it touches.

In the garden pea, it is only the terminal leaflets that are modified to become tendrils. In other plants such as the yellow vetch (Lathyrus aphaca) the whole leaf is modified to become tendrils while the stipules become enlarged and carry out photosynthesis.

Tendril can also be used to describe a wisp of hair or indeed anything that resembles the tendrils of plants.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Connection	Bond, tendon, tendril; fiber; cord, cordage; riband, ribbon, rope, guy, cable, line, halser, hawser, painter, moorings, wire, chain; string; (filament).
Convolution	Coil, roll, curl; buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle; tendril; scollop, scallop, escalop; kink; ammonite, snakestone.
Filament	Noun: filament, line; fiber, fibril; funicle, vein; hair, capillament, cilium, cilia, pilus, pili; tendril, gossamer; hair stroke; veinlet, venula, venule.
Infant	Child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling; elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin,codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Tendril

English words defined with "tendril": Capreolate, Cirriform, Cirrose, Clasper ♦ Passion flower, Peduncular, Petiolary ♦ Tendron. (references)

Etymologies containing "tendril": Clavicle ♦ Pampiniform ♦ Tendron. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Leaf and Tendril (reference) Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry: An Anthology from Tendril Magazine (reference) Tendril Magazine Presents (reference) (more book examples)
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"Tendril" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tendril" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	22	74,468

Expression using "tendril": tendril on a flower. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "tendril": tendril-haired, tendril-like.
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Language		Translations for "tendril"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		lozë, dredhë (circumvolution, coil, contortion, convolution, Crimp, helix, hook, kink, meanders, sinuosity, spiral, volute, whorl, winding). (various references)

Arabic		‏جزء لولبي من نبتة معرشة. (various references)

Bulgarian		филиз (bine, offset, outgrowth, scion, shoot, spear, sprout, tiller), мустаче (antenna, barb, barbell, cirrus, feeler, runner, shoot, tentacle, trailer), ластар (runner, trailer). (various references)

Czech		úponka. (various references)

Danish		slyngtråd, ranke (arm), klatretråd, gribetråd. (various references)

Dutch		rank (cirrus, slender, slim, twig), hechtrank. (various references)

Farsi		پیچک (Ivy, Scroll), ریشه پیچک . (various references)

Finnish		kärhi. (various references)

French		vrille. (various references)

German		Ranke (branch, brier, cirrus, shoot, stalk). (various references)

Greek		έλικα (ansa, cirrus, control edge, helical groove, helix, propeller, scroll, volute), λεπτόσ ελικοειδήσ βλαστόσ συγκρατών αναρριχγρικόν φυτόν, ψαλλίδα κλήματος, ψαλίδα (alligator, earwig, pruning scissors, striping unit, yarn-changing unit). (various references)

Hebrew		תלתלון, ק� וק� ת (cirrus, sinew), זמור�" (branch, shoot, sprout, twig, vine twig), זלזל (shoot, sprig, twig), � טיש�" (abandonment, branch, twig). (various references)

Hungarian		kacs (cirri, cirrus, fringe, trailer), inda (bine, offset, runner, spindle, stalk, stole, trailer). (various references)

Indonesian		carang. (various references)

Italian		viticcio. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		巻鬚 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		まきひ�'. (various references)

Manx		chionnag (tentacle). (various references)

Pig Latin		endriltay

Portuguese		gavinha. (various references)

Romanian		curpen, cârcel (cramp, kink). (various references)

Russian		усик (feeler, tentacle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		hvatalica, žilica. (various references)

Spanish		zarcillo (earring, holdfast). (various references)

Swedish		klänge (cirrus). (various references)

Thai		ยอ�"ไม้เลื้อย. (various references)

Turkish		sarılmaya yarayan filiz, filiz (bud, burgeon, button, cion, growth, offshoot, ore, outgrowth, rod, shoot, spine, spray, sprig, sprout, tiller), bıyık (moustache, mustache, whisker, whiskers). (various references)

Ukranian		кучер (coachman, curl, frizzle, kinkle, link, ringlet, swirl, whip), вусик (antenna, barb, cirrus, tentacle, whisker). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	dim. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	cirrus. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	tendre. (various references)
Middle French	1400-1600	tendrillon. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "tendril": tendriled, tendrilled, tendrilous, tendrils. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Tendril" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: benadryl, chondral, Dendral, Endoril, Pendrell, tandry, tendria, tendriis, tendrill, tendrll, Tengri, Tienari, Tindill, tundril. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: trindle.
	Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-n-r-t"
	-1 letter: dentil, linter, rident, tinder, tirled, trined.
	-2 letters: diner, elint, idler, inert, inlet, inter, lined, liner, liter, litre, niter, nitre, relit, riled, teind, tilde, tiled, tiler, tined, tired, trend, tried, trine.
	-3 letters: deil, deli, delt, deni, dent, diel, diet, dine, dint, dire, dirl, dirt, dite, edit, idle, ired, lend, lent, lied, lien, lier, line, lint, lire, lite, nerd, nide, nite, rein, rend, rent, ride, riel, rile, rind, rite, tend, tern, tide, tied, tier, tile, tine, tire, tirl.
	-4 letters: del, den, die, din, dit, eld, end, ern, ire, led, lei, let, lid, lie, lin, lit, net, nil, nit, red, rei, ret, rid, rin, ted, tel, ten, tie, til, tin.
	-5 letters: de, ed, el, en, er, et, id, in, it, li, ne, re, ti.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-n-r-t"
	+1 letter: tendrils, trendily, trindled, trindles, underlit.
	+2 letters: interfold, interlaid, interlard, interlend, interlude, interpled, tailender, tendriled, treadling, treddling.
	+3 letters: adulterine, credential, delineator, derailment, disenthral, disgruntle, hinterland, indirectly, interfiled, interfolds, interlaced, interlards, interlends, interlined, interloped, interludes, intermodal, internodal, interplead, intertidal, inthralled, intrepidly, prudential, reenlisted, reinflated, rudimental, splintered, strandline, stridently, tailenders, tenderloin, tendrilled, tendrilous, timberland, unfiltered, wilderment.
	+4 letters: alexandrite, antheridial, blueprinted, cardinalate, centralised, centralized, chlorinated, credentials, declaration, deferential, defloration, delineators, delustering, derailments, dereliction, desalinator, detrimental, differently, directional, disenthrall, disenthrals, disgruntled, disgruntles, disrelation, divergently, endometrial, eternalized, faultfinder, fluorinated, friendliest, hinterlands, imprudently, incredulity, infiltrated, interallied, interdealer, interdental, interfolded, interisland, interlapped, interlarded, interleaved, interlinked, interlocked, intermeddle, interplayed, interpleads, intertilled, intradermal, lionhearted, naturalised, naturalized, neutralised, neutralized, periodontal, plantigrade, providently, radiolucent, reconditely, redactional, reductional, reimplanted, reinstalled, residential, strandlines, streamlined, tenderloins, timberlands, trickledown, unliberated, wilderments, windlestraw.
	+5 letters: adulterating, adulteration, alexandrites, bewilderment, cantilevered, cardinalates, clairaudient, coordinately, credentialed, cyclodextrin, decelerating, deceleration, decentralize, dechlorinate, declarations, deflagrating, deflagration, deflationary, deflorations, deliberating, deliberation, denaturalize, dendrologist, deregulating, deregulation, derelictions, derivational, desalinators, determinable, determinably, determinedly, detrimentals, differential, dilatoriness, discrepantly, disenthralls, disrelations, distrainable, dorsiventral, edulcorating, externalised, externalized, faultfinders, glycerinated, indiscreetly, inordinately, intercalated, interdealers, interestedly, interfolding, interlarding, interlayered, interlending, intermeddled, intermeddler, intermeddles, intermingled, internalised, internalized, interplanted, interpleaded, interpleader, interpolated, interrelated, interstadial, intertidally, iridescently, laryngitides, lepidopteran, multipronged, noneditorial, nonsteroidal, orientalized, overinflated, plantigrades, predilection, presidential, providential, prudentially, quadrivalent, radioelement, rationalised, rationalized, redistilling, reinoculated, restrainedly, revalidating, revalidation, stepchildren, stickhandler, stringhalted, thunderingly, towardliness, tranquilized, tredecillion, triangulated, ultrarefined, uncalibrated, uncirculated, underletting, underutilize, unfertilized, unsterilized, valetudinary, ventromedial, windlestraws.
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