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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TENDRIL

Perhaps from Old French tendron tendril (confused with Old French tendron bud), from Medieval Latin tendōtendon.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TENDRIL

tendril  [ˈtɛndrɪl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TENDRIL

noun
adjective
verb
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tendril is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TENDRIL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

tendril

Tendril

In botany, a tendril is a specialized stem, leaf or petiole with a threadlike shape that is used by climbing plants for support, attachment and cellular invasion by parasitic plants, generally by twining around suitable hosts. They do not have a lamina or blade, but they can photosynthesize. They can be formed from modified shoots, modified leaves, or auxiliary branches and are sensitive to airborne chemicals, often determining the direction of growth, as in species of Cuscuta.

Definition of tendril in the English dictionary

The definition of tendril in the dictionary is a specialized threadlike part of a leaf or stem that attaches climbing plants to a support by twining or adhering. Other definition of tendril is something resembling a tendril, such as a wisp of hair.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TENDRIL


Benadryl
ˈbɛnədrɪl
drill
drɪl
escadrille
ˌɛskəˈdrɪl
espadrille
ˌɛspəˈdrɪl
mandrill
ˈmændrɪl
predrill
priːˈdrɪl
quadrille
kwɒˈdrɪl
redrill
riːˈdrɪl
sulfhydryl
sʌlfˈhaɪdrɪl
sulphhydryl
sʌlfˈhaɪdrɪl
test-drill
ˈtestˌdrɪl
tredrille
trəˈdrɪl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TENDRIL

tenderize
tenderizer
tenderling
tenderloin
tenderly
tenderness
tenderometer
tendinitis
tendinous
tendon
tendonitis
tendovaginitis
tendre
tendresse
tendrillar
tendrilled
tendrillous
tendrilous
tendron
tendu

WORDS THAT END LIKE TENDRIL

April
aril
Bovril
captopril
courbaril
Cyril
enalapril
Estoril
fibril
imperil
mandril
meril
microfibril
myofibril
nombril
nostril
peril
spandril
vril
yellow peril

Synonyms and antonyms of tendril in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tendril» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TENDRIL

Find out the translation of tendril to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tendril from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tendril» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

卷须
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

zarcillo
570 millions of speakers

English

tendril
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ज़ुल्फ़
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حالق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

усик
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mecha
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লতাপ্রতান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

vrille
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tendril
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ranke
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

巻きひげ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

덩굴손
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tendril
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tua của nho
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கொடிச் சுருள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टेंबिल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

filiz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

viticcio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wąs
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

усик
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cârcel
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

tendril
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rank
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

klänge
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tendril
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tendril

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TENDRIL»

The term «tendril» is regularly used and occupies the 99.054 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TENDRIL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tendril

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TENDRIL»

Discover the use of tendril in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tendril and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Leaf and Tendril
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
John Burroughs, 2012
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Taxonomy of Angiosperms
Germination is epigeal type and the process is aided by the formation of a peg in the hypocotyl region. MORPHOLOGY OF TENDRILS IN CUCURBITACEAE In Cucurbitaceae, most of the plants show a tendril on the upper side of the leaf base.
A. V. S. S. Sambamurty, 2005
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Blue Ribbon Science Fair Projects
Continue watering the sprouted seeds until you have one tendril about 1 inch ( 2.54 cm) long. Push a pencil, sharp side down, into the soil near the tendril and observe the growth of the tendril over the next 24 hours. 3. Allow the tendril to ...
Glen Vecchione, 2005
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Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s
Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s offers the first direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement first known as Modern Drama. It contains twelve plays by women from the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Katherine E. Kelly, 2002
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Plants in Action: Adaptation in Nature, Performance in ...
Tendrils are specialised thread-like structures that can grasp objects with which they come into contact. They are modified leaves or stems sensitive to sliding and /or repeated touch, such as occurs when a tendril contacts a neighbouring stem.
Brian James Atwell, Paul E. Kriedemann, Colin G. N. Turnbull, 1999
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The Psychic Vampire Codex: A Manual of Magick and Energy Work
The thread, or tendril, is an extension of the stuff of your subtle body. Most tendrils are relatively thin, being somewhat thicker at their base and tapering at their end. The tendril functions as a conduit through which energy passes. The conduit ...
Michelle A Belanger, 2004
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Plant Tropisms: And Other Growth Movements
(In much of the early literature on tendril coiling the abaxial surface of an organ was described as the 'ventral' side, used in the zoological sense of 'lower' or ' underside'; similarly the adaxial surface was often termed the 'dorsal' side.) Within ...
J.W. Hart, 1990
8
The Biology of Vines
for a tendril to coil around. As for the upper size limit, MacDougal's (1893) observation that Passiflora caerulea tendrils are able to clasp on to a flat board of thickness almost equal to the tendril's length is undermined by the fact that this ...
Francis E. Putz, Harold A. Mooney, 1991
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Principles of Horticultural Physiology
Fig. 4.3. Winter squash (Cucurbita spp.) tendril which originates as leaf tissue. TENDRILS FFIOM STIPULES Stipules are small append— ages at the base of a leaf. Greenbriar (also known as catbriar) (Smilax) has tendrils formed from stipules.
Edward Francis Durner, 2013
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The Quoit Brooch Style and Anglo-Saxon Settlement: A Casting ...
A tendril scroll is symmetrically arranged on either side of the apex of the triangle. Three semi-masks (ie, semicircles containing two dots within or pair-of- eyes punchmarks) are found immediately adjacent to the outer boundary of the field ...
Seiichi Suzuki, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TENDRIL»

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Tendril Helping To Move Community Solar Forward
Tendril is a Denver-based software company that has created a new program to help utility companies identify customers for community solar projects. «CleanTechnica, Jun 15»
2
Tendril Launches a Customer Acquisition Solution for Utility-Owned …
Tendril, the Boulder, Colo.-based software startup, rebooted its business last year with a shift to microtargeted energy savings products through its new Energy ... «Greentech Media, Jun 15»
3
Tendril Warns Customers of High Utility Bills
Tendril energy manage Tendril can now deliver high-bill alerts to any North American energy consumer. Tendril's Proactive High Bill Notifications can accurately ... «Energy Manager Today, Apr 15»
4
EcoFactor, Tendril, and Cadmus join the Association for DR & Smart …
Tendril has achieved great satisfaction rates using its software platform for personalized energy services. And Cadmus is performing cutting-edge evaluations on ... «PR Newswire, Apr 15»
5
Icy tendrils reaching into Saturn ring traced to their source
Long, sinuous, tendril-like structures seen in the vicinity of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus originate directly from geysers erupting from its surface, according to ... «Astronomy Magazine, Apr 15»
6
How finger-like structures seen in Saturn's moon Enceladus vicinity …
This collage, consisting of two Cassini images of long, sinuous, tendril-like features from Saturn's moon Enceladus and two corresponding computer simulations ... «Daily News & Analysis, Apr 15»
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Tendril Makes Denver Post's 'Top 100 Workplaces' List for the …
BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tendril, the leading provider of Energy Services Management (ESM) solutions, is pleased to announce that it has once ... «Business Wire, Apr 15»
8
French Utility Giant Funds Tendril's European Expansion With $7.2M
Tendril Networks, the Boulder, CO-based company that develops software for the utility industry, announced Tuesday it has received a $7.2 million investment ... «Xconomy, Feb 15»
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GDF Invests $7.2 Million in Tendril's Energy Management Software
(Bloomberg) -- GDF Suez, operator of Europe's largest natural gas network, is investing $7.2 million in Tendril Networks Inc.'s energy-management software ... «Bloomberg, Feb 15»
10
SunPower drops $20M into Tendril to connect solar, energy …
Though the system could make users energy independent, Tendril instead foresees exchanging data with utilities to allow the best uses of solar by the grid and ... «Utility Dive, Dec 14»

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