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1
: a leaf, stipule, or stem modified into a slender spirally coiling sensitive organ serving to attach a climbing plant to its support
2
: something suggestive of a tendril
creeping tendrils of fog
Examples of tendril in a Sentence
A few tendrils of hair framed her face.
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The red tendrils weaving through this gas represent filaments of cooler gas seen in optical light by the VLT.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 29 Jan. 2025
The aroma was evident last summer on the shrinking mudflats of the Bird’s Foot’s outer tendrils.
—Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 9 Jan. 2025
In the works, two women who resembled the artist — but with blue skin and flowing hair, like tendrils of seaweed — are playing telephone across the two canvases.
—Shirley Nwangwa, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2024
Her hair was swept into an updo with a few curly tendrils framing her face.
—Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 24 June 2024
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 29 Jan. 2025
The aroma was evident last summer on the shrinking mudflats of the Bird’s Foot’s outer tendrils.
—Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 9 Jan. 2025
In the works, two women who resembled the artist — but with blue skin and flowing hair, like tendrils of seaweed — are playing telephone across the two canvases.
—Shirley Nwangwa, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2024
Her hair was swept into an updo with a few curly tendrils framing her face.
—Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 24 June 2024
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“Tendril.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tendril. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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tendril
noun
ten·dril
ˈten-drəl 
1
: a slender leafless winding stem by which some climbing plants fasten themselves to a support
2
: something that curls like a tendril
tendrils of hair
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