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tendrilled

tendrilled

1 7.2
Having thin curling stems that help a plant climb or attach
  • adjective
  • /ˈtɛn.drɪld/
: enredado
  • The researcher noted how the tendrilled species adapted to their environment by climbing nearby trees.

Examples

  • Something was going awry with Wetherall's smartwig, and the hair was climbing up around his hat like a many-tendrilled octopus.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The tendrilled vine wrapped around the trellis as it reached for the sunlight.

  • In the garden, the tendrilled plants used their delicate tendrils to climb up the supports.

Synonyms

tendril-climbing
vstendrilled
1 7.9

A plant that climbs by coiling thin, curling parts around a support

has thin spiral appendages or resembles them not limited to climbing

Antonyms

bare
301 2.2

Not covered or protected, showing the plain surface

Surface Forms

tendrilled positive

Morphology

tendrilled = tendril (transparent) = tendril + ed

The word 'tendrilled' is transparently derived from 'tendril' with the addition of the suffix '-ed' to form an adjective.

Etymology

Tendrilled comes from the word tendril, which comes from an old root meaning 'to stretch' and is the same idea you see in extend and tension. A tendril is a small, curling thread plants use to hold on, so tendrilled means 'having or like those curling threads'.