Definitions for tendril

tendril ten·dril

Spelling: [ten-dril]
IPA: /ˈtɛn drɪl/

Tendril is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 209 anagrams from letters in tendril (deilnrt).

Definitions for tendril

noun

  1. 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.

Origin of tendril

1530-40; earlier tendrel, variant (perhaps by dissimilation) of Middle English tendren, tendron Middle French tendron shoot, sprout, cartilage

Examples for tendril

Yes, she was my girl, devoted to me, attached to me by every tendril of her being.

One woman is focused intently on wrapping and unwrapping a tendril of hair around her finger.

That of course makes it less probable that the tendril will be broken.

To every object a memory had attached itself; a memory that had also a tendril in their hearts.

He plucks the tendril from a vine, smells it, and puts it in his mouth.

It was probably derived from an old form of leaf and tendril.

Phototropic response of the tendril of Passiflora: Experiment 145.

Ah, never: but as you leave the garden—pluck one tendril from the vine.

Grapevines climbed the posts and tendril shadows were on the ground beneath.

The shape of the tendril is all that can be said in its favour.

Word Value for tendril
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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