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Definition of Tendrils
1. tendril [n] - See also: tendril
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tendrils
Literary usage of Tendrils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"Following FITTING, we must therefore recognize tendrils which react equally on
all sides and tendrils which do not do so. As to the behaviour of the latter ..."
2. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1832)
"On the Motions of the tendrils of Plants. By Thomas Andrew Knight, ...
'Some naturalists have supposed tendrils to be endued with some degree of perception, ..."
3. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"Sometimes such marginal protecting structures are wanting, as in the banana leaf,
which consequently is shredded by the winds (fig. 846). Leaf tendrils. ..."
4. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"In Monocotyledones tendrils are rare. Smilax. The tendrils of Smilax have ...
The manner in which the transformation into tendrils of leaves or parts of ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1880)
"We see now the meaning of the power possessed by the tendrils of moving toward
... It seems, moreover, that the tendrils are especially adapted to the moss- ..."
6. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"tendrils intermittent (every third joint lacking tendril or fl.-cluster}. H.
Tomentum on under surface of hs. white 30. candicans HH. ..."
7. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray, George Lincoln Goodale (1885)
"In some cases tendrils are not sensitive to contact, but are distinctly ...
Grape-vines and Virginia creeper furnish good examples of such tendrils. ..."
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