- tendrillar
- ten·dril·lar
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tendrillar
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tendrillar — ˈtendrələ(r) adjective Etymology: tendril (I) + ar : tendrilous * * * tenˈdrillar or tenˈdrillous adjective • • • Main Entry: ↑tendril … Useful english 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
ten|dril|ous — «TEHN druh luhs», adjective. = tendrillar. (Cf. ↑tendrillar) … Useful english dictionary
spiral — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. coiled, winding, helical, turbinate, cochlear. See convolution. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. winding, circling, cochlear, coiled, helical, whorled, radial, screw shaped, circumvoluted, curled, rolled … English dictionary for students
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 …
spiral — [adj] curling, winding circling, circular, circumvoluted, cochlear, coiled, corkscrew, curled, helical, helicoid, radial, rolled, screwshaped, scrolled, tendrillar, tortile, voluted, whorled, wound; concept 486 Ant. straight, uncurling, unwinding … New thesaurus
