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  • adjective botany Having (a specified number or kind of) tendrils.

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Examples

  • Here breathtaking landscapes and authentic Mexican faces can be seen nearby riotously colorful dishes, region-specific raw ingredients and local flora that might have come from another planet, like long-tendrilled Tepejilote flowers that look more like mutant baby squids than edible vegetation.

    Gastronomy Aram Bakshian Jr. 2010

  • Maria had chosen to dress up as Christine from Phantom of the Opera, and was adding tendrilled extensions to her hair to look more the part.

    Sweet Deceit Kate Brian 2010

  • Maria had chosen to dress up as Christine from Phantom of the Opera, and was adding tendrilled extensions to her hair to look more the part.

    Sweet Deceit Kate Brian 2010

  • They also hate tendrilled slans as much or more than they hate humans, so Cross has two groups against him.

    Archive 2007-01-01 James Killus 2007

  • They also hate tendrilled slans as much or more than they hate humans, so Cross has two groups against him.

    Slan: A Critique James Killus 2007

  • Thin, white, wisps tendrilled out from underneath the bulbous extrusions in their slow parade across the sky.

    Dingo Chapter 7 Rogers 2005

  • Thin, white, wisps tendrilled out from underneath the bulbous extrusions in their slow parade across the sky.

    Archive 2005-10-30 Rogers 2005

  • She straightened — her arms swept out and the writhing vine, with its tendrilled heads of ruby bloom, five flames of misty incandescence, leaped into the faces of the soldiers now close upon us.

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • She stood wilfully swaying a branch of the tendrilled arbor, and, he subtly felt, so dissatisfied with herself for her temporary disloyalty that she felt alien to them both: Marshby because she had wronged him by admitting another man to this intimate knowledge of him, and the other man for being her accomplice.

    Different Girls Various

  • She straightened -- her arms swept out and the writhing vine, with its tendrilled heads of ruby bloom, five flames of misty incandescence, leaped into the faces of the soldiers now close upon us.

    The Moon Pool 1919

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