See Also: tendril(medicine)
tendril(dictionary)
tendril(encyclopedia)
tendril(dictionary)

baksheesh (oh) and tendril (oh)


baksheesh (oh)



[Date: 1700-1800; Language: Persian; Origin: bakhshish, from bakhshidan 'to give']
money that people in the Middle East give to poor people, to someone who has helped them, or as a bribe

tendril (oh)



[Date: 1500-1600; Origin: Perhaps from Old French tendron, from tendon 'tendon, tendril', from Medieval Latin tendo; TENDON]
a thin leafless curling stem by which a climbing plant fastens itself to a support
literary a thin curling piece of hair