- tendrilous
- adjective see tendril
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
tendrilous
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tendrilous — ten·dril·ous … English syllables
tendrilous — drələs adjective Etymology: tendril (I) + ous 1. : tendriled 2. : resembling a tendril … Useful english dictionary
tendril — noun Etymology: probably modification of Middle French tendron bud, cartilage, alteration of Old French tenrum, from Vulgar Latin *tenerumen, from Latin tener tender more at tender Date: 1538 1. a leaf, stipule, or stem modified into a slender… … New Collegiate Dictionary
tendril — tendrillar, tendrilous, adj. tendrilly, adj. /ten dril/, n. Bot. a 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. [1530 40;… … Universalium
Western architecture — Introduction history of Western architecture from prehistoric Mediterranean cultures to the present. The history of Western architecture is marked by a series of new solutions to structural problems. During the period from the… … Universalium
fine — I adj 1. good, satisfactory, acceptable, all right, Inf.O.K., Sl. copacetic, Sl. hunky dory, Chiefly Brit. Inf. tickety boo, Archaic. rum; quality, superior, high grade, choice, select; splendid, Inf. splendiferous, superb, magnificent, Sl. swell … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
finespun — adj 1. sheer, delicate, fine, tissuey, flimsy, gauzy, gauzelike, cobwebby; light, filmy, diaphanous, transparent, translucent; gossamer, lacy, lacelike, filigree; filamentary, filamentous, filamented, fibriform, fibrillar, fibrilliform,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
tendril — /ˈtɛndrəl / (say tendruhl) noun a filiform 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. {French tendrillon tender shoot, from tendron tender …
tendrillar — ˈtendrələ(r) adjective Etymology: tendril (I) + ar : tendrilous * * * tenˈdrillar or tenˈdrillous adjective • • • Main Entry: ↑tendril … Useful english dictionary
tendrilly — lē adjective Etymology: tendril (I) + ly : tendrilous … Useful english dictionary
