a tendril of hair

  • 51gossamer — Synonyms and related words: air, airy, animal fiber, artificial fiber, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, bubble, cambric tea, capillament, chaff, chip, cilium, cirrus, clear, clear as crystal, cobweb, cork, crystal, crystal clear, crystalline,… …

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  • 52hank — Synonyms and related words: animal fiber, artificial fiber, capillament, cilium, cirrus, cobweb, denier, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, flagellum, gossamer, hair, skein, strand, suture, tendril, thread, threadlet, web …

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  • 53skein — Synonyms and related words: animal fiber, artificial fiber, bevy, capillament, charm, cilium, cirrus, cloud, cobweb, covey, denier, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, flagellum, flight, flock, gaggle, gossamer, hair, hank, hive, jungle, knot …

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  • 54strand — Synonyms and related words: animal fiber, artificial fiber, bank, beach, berm, capillament, cast away, cilium, cirrus, coast, coastland, coastline, cobweb, denier, embankment, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, flagellum, foreshore, gossamer …

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  • 55suture — Synonyms and related words: animal fiber, ankle, articulation, artificial fiber, boundary, butt, capillament, cervix, cilium, cirrus, clinch, closure, cobweb, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, coupling, denier, dovetail, elbow, embrace …

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  • 56switch — Synonyms and related words: about face, accommodation, action, adaptation, adjustment, agency, alchemy, alteration, alternate, amelioration, anagnorisis, angle, apostacize, apostasy, apostatize, appendage, architectonics, architecture, argument,… …

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  • 57web — Synonyms and related words: anatomy, animal fiber, arabesque, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, artificial fiber, basketry, basketwork, bed, braid, braiding, build, building, cancellation, capillament, cilium, cirrus, cloth, cobweb,… …

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  • 58convolution — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Shape like a coil Nouns 1. convolution, winding; involution, circumvolution; wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity; intricacy; sinuosity, sinuation; meandering, circuit; twist, twirl, windings and… …

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  • 59tentacle — noun 1》 a long slender flexible appendage of an animal, used for grasping or moving about, or bearing sense organs. 2》 a tendril or sensitive glandular hair on a plant. 3》 an insidious spread of influence and control: the Party s tentacles… …

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  • 60wind — 1 /wInd/ noun 1 AIR (C, U) moving air, especially when it moves strongly or quickly in a current: a 70 mile an hour wind | branches swaying in the wind | the wind blows: A gentle wind was blowing through the trees. | strong/high winds: The… …

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