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tendril n. 卷须,蔓,卷须状之物 卷须,蔓,卷须状之物 tendril n 1: slender stem- like structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for supportTendril \ Ten" dril\, n. [ Shortened fr. OF. tendrillon, fr. F. tendre tender; hence, properly, the tender branch or spring of a plant: cf. F. tendrille. See { Tender}, a., and cf. { Tendron}.] ( Bot.) A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Tendrils may represent the end of a stem, as in the grapevine; an axillary branch, as in the passion flower; stipules, as in the genus Smilax; or the end of a leaf, as in the pea. [ 1913 Webster] [ 1913 Webster]
Tendril \ Ten" dril\, a. Clasping; climbing as a tendril. [ R.] -- Dyer. [ 1913 Webster] Tendriled86 Moby Thesaurus words for " tendril": animal fiber, appendage, arm, artificial fiber, bine, bough, branch, branchedness, branchiness, burgeon, capillament, cilium, cirrus, cobweb, coil, corkscrew, curl, curlicue, deadwood, denier, evolute, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, flagellum, fork, frond, gossamer, gyre, hair, hand, hank, helix, imp, involute, joint, kink, leg, limb, link, lobe, lobule, member, offshoot, organ, pinion, ramage, ramification, ringlet, roll, runner, sarment, scion, screw, scroll, shoot, skein, slip, spear, spiral, spray, sprig, sprit, sprout, spur, stolon, strand, sucker, suture, swirl, switch, tail, thallus, thread, threadlet, twig, twirl, twist, volute, volution, vortex, web, whirl, whorl, wing
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