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Tenacle vs Cenacle - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between tenacle and cenacle

is that tenacle is (rare) a stalk or shoot by which a plant holds itself up, or by which climbing plants attach themselves to surfaces while cenacle is cenacle (all senses).

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)

    • cenacle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a dining room, especially one on an upper floor (traditionally the room in which the Last Supper took place)
  • (by extension) a small circle or gathering of specialists (writers etc); a clique
  • *1881 , :
  • *:I remember an anecdote of a well-known French theorist, who was debating a point eagerly in his cenacle . It was objected against him that he had never experienced love.