"tenacle" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin tenaculum, from tenere (“to hold”).",
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          "text": "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.",
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        "A stalk or shoot by which a plant holds itself up, or by which climbing plants attach themselves to surfaces."
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        "(rare) A stalk or shoot by which a plant holds itself up, or by which climbing plants attach themselves to surfaces."
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