tenacle

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A stalk or shoot by which a plant holds itself up, or by which climbing plants attach themselves to surfaces. rare
    — 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.

词形变化

tenacles plural

词源

From Latin tenaculum, from tenere (“to hold”).
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