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Tendril vs Mustache - What's the difference?

tendril | mustache |

As nouns the difference between tendril and mustache

is that tendril is a thin, spirally coiling stem that attaches a plant to its support while mustache is a growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.

tendril

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) A thin, spirally coiling stem that attaches a plant to its support.
  • (zoology) A hair-like tentacle.

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    mustache

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (Commonwealth English ) moustache

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.
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  • *:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache . “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

    • Derived terms

    * Charlie Chaplin mustache * Fu Manchu mustache * handlebar mustache * Hitler mustache * molestache * mustache ride * stache, 'stache * tache, 'tache * toothbrush mustache

    See also

    * beard * sideburn, sideboard * whisker