Associations to the word «Tendril»

Wiktionary

TENDRIL, noun. (botany) A thin, spirally coiling stem that attaches a plant to its support.
TENDRIL, noun. (zoology) A hair-like tentacle.
TENDRIL PERVERSION, noun. (geometry) A reversal of handedness in helical curves.

Dictionary definition

TENDRIL, noun. Slender stem-like structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for support.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope