TENDRE
Ten"dre, n. [F.]
Defn: Tender feeling or fondness; affection.
You poor friendless creatures are always having some foolish tendre.
Thackeray.
TENDRESSE
Ten*dresse", n. [F.]
Defn: Tender feeling; fondness. [Obs., except as a French word]
TENDRIL
Ten"dril, n. Etym: [Shortened fr. OF. tendrillon, fr. F. tendre
tender; hence, properly, the tender branch or spring of a plant: cf.
F. tendrille. See Tender, a., and cf. Tendron.] (Bot.)
Defn: A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally.
Note: Tendrils may represent the end of a stem, as in the grapevine; an axillary branch, as in the passion flower; stipules, as in the genus Smilax; or the end of a leaf, as in the pea.
TENDRIL
Ten"dril, a.
Defn: Clasping; climbing as a tendril. [R.] Dyer.