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tendrilous en · ADJ

Etymology

From tendril + -ous.

Meanings

1. Tendril-like.
   • The long, curling, tendrilous appendages speedily affix themselves to sea-weeds, or other appropriate substances, and from their form and consistence anchor the egg firmly. 1866, John George Wood, The Common Objects of the Sea Shore: Including Hints for an Aquarium:
   • It was huge, the first thing you saw when you walked in the room, made from a flimsy cut of wood, overcarved with gaudy, tendrilous designs and studded with glued-on florets. 2007, Catherine Landis, Harvest: A Novel, →ISBN:
2. Having many tendrils.
   • These frightful precipices were partially concealed from us by a treacherous growth of under-brush, sea-side grape, with tendrilous and parasitical plants pendant from the loftier trees, as at intervals there shot up a gru-gru, or a gree-gree, another variety of the palm tribe. 1852, Charles William Day, Five Years' Residence in the West Indies, pages 98–99:
   • This creeping tendrilous plant has a leaf like an obtuse rhomb, rather downy, and having a chilli-shaped aculeated pod, full of a long silky fibre adhering to the seeds. 1868, James Chapman, Travels in the Interior of South Africa, page 74:

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