Recent Examples on the WebBrightening the plate was a pretty pea-tendril leaf.—Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2022 Malibu, California has long been known as the playground of the rich and famous, a coastal tendril of the 18 million person greater Los Angeles megalopolis.—Jeffrey Marlow, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2016 Nelson reached over and grabbed a greenish tendril, hauling it into the boat: bull kelp.—Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2021 This means the hole whips it around, pulling out a long tendril which then spirals ever closer to the Point Of No Return.—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2012 Must mean something, since Atlanta returned this year as a tendril of the Disney behemoth.—Darren Franich, EW.com, 14 Nov. 2022 No one knows exactly when, but from the vast expanse of tropical air around the Equator, atmospheric currents will pluck out a long tendril of water vapor and funnel it toward the West Coast.—New York Times, 12 Aug. 2022 Each cosmic red tendril and teal plume has a matching pyro pellet within the firework shell.—Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2022 Kylie wore her hair in an updo with a side part and left one long face-framing tendril.—Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 16 May 2022 See More
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Word History
Etymology
probably modification of Middle French tendron bud, cartilage, alteration of Old French tenrum, from Vulgar Latin *tenerumen, from Latin tener tender — more at tender entry 1
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