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Tenable vs Tenacle - What's the difference?

tenable | tenacle |

As an adjective tenable

is capable of being maintained or justified; well-founded.

As a noun tenacle is

(rare) a stalk or shoot by which a plant holds itself up, or by which climbing plants attach themselves to surfaces.

tenable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • capable of being maintained or justified; well-founded
    • Back in the 1800s, many did not consider Darwin's theory of evolution to be tenable at all.
  • (of a defensive structure) capable of being defended against assault or attack; defensible

    • Antonyms

    * untenable

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    tenacle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A stalk or shoot by which a plant holds itself up, or by which climbing plants attach themselves to surfaces.
  • * 1658': 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. — Sir Thomas Browne, ''The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 198)