Tendril vs Wisp - What's the difference?
tendril | wisp |
(botany) A thin, spirally coiling stem that attaches a plant to its support.
(zoology) A hair-like tentacle.
A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group.
* Dryden
A whisk, or small broom.
A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.
* Tennyson
As nouns the difference between tendril and wisp
is that tendril is (botany) a thin, spirally coiling stem that attaches a plant to its support while wisp is a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group.As a verb wisp is
to brush or dress, as with a wisp.tendril
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(en noun)Anagrams
*wisp
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(en noun)- A wisp of smoke rose from the candle for a few moments after he blew it out.
- A wisp of hair escaped her barrette and whipped wildly in the wind.
- in a small basket, on a wisp of hay
- the wisp that flickers where no foot can tread