Recent Examples on the WebFire whirls are small rotating tendrils of flames or smoke that occur along the edges of fires.—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 27 July 2024 The colorful designs invite you to have fun with these kinds of styles and take them to the next level, like the large fabric flower with the free-flowing tendrils.—Michel Mejía, Vogue, 25 June 2024 But as weeks passed, about 85 percent of the device’s tendrils slipped out of his brain.—Christina Jewett, New York Times, 22 May 2024 Two of them take off their headscarves entirely, one of them pushes it backward to pull out tendrils of hair to frame her face, and one of them keeps hers on.—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for tendril
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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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