The Gourd, / And thirſty Cucumer, vvhen they perceive / Th' approaching Olive, vvith Reſentment fly / Her fatty Fibres, and vvith Tendrils creep / Diverſe, deteſting Contact; […]
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Tendril
//ˈtɛn.dɹəl//
Synonyms for "tendril" (89 found)
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Closest matches (18)
Strong matches (27)
Related words (44)
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7 entriesTranslations
46 translations across 33 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὄστλιγξ noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Arabic
1 entries- مِحْلَاق noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Bulgarian
2 entries- ластар noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
- филиз noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Catalan
1 entries- circell noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 卷鬚 /卷须 noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Czech
1 entries- úponek noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Dutch
1 entries- rank noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Esperanto
1 entries- ĉiro noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Finnish
2 entries- korkkiruuvi noun (hair-like tentacle)
- kärhi noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
French
2 entries- cirre noun (hair-like tentacle)
- vrille noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Galician
1 entries- gabián noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Georgian
1 entries- ულვაშა noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
German
1 entries- Ranke noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Hungarian
1 entries- inda noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Ilocano
1 entries- kuriwawet noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Irish
1 entries- teannóg noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Italian
2 entries- cirro noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
- cirro noun (hair-like tentacle)
Korean
2 entries- 덩굴손 noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
- 덩굴줄기 noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Latin
1 entries- pampinus noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Macedonian
1 entries- витица noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Māori
4 entries- hihi noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
- ihi noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
- kawekawe noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
- tōihi noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Rank noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Polish
2 entries- kosmyk noun (hair-like tentacle)
- wąs noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Portuguese
1 entries- gavinha noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Romanian
1 entries- cârcel noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Russian
1 entries- у́сик noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- ògan noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Slovene
1 entries- vitica noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Spanish
3 entries- cirro noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
- manecilla noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
- zarcillo noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Swedish
2 entries- klänge noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
- ranka noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Tocharian B
1 entries- śkwarya noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Turkish
2 entries- asma bıyığı noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
- bıyık noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Welsh
1 entries- tendril noun (thin, spirally coiling stem)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Her blond hair was tied into a half up, half down style with face-framing tendrils.
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Kissing the tendril fingers - at first because Mina, its mother, did not - but later with a rapture begot by its breath on her breast.
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