tenacle
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin tenaculum, from tenere (“to hold”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tenacle (plural tenacles)
- (rare) A stalk or shoot by which a plant holds itself up, or by which climbing plants attach themselves to surfaces.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 198:
- And Ivy divided from the root, we have observed to live some years, by the cirrous parts commonly conceived but as tenacles and holdfasts unto it.