Holdfast Synonyms

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Synonyms for Holdfast

fastener
A device, such as a clip, pin, or clasp, that attaches something firmly to something else.
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fastening
Something, such as a hook, used to attach one thing to another firmly.
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fixing
The act of subverting a vote.
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Words Related to Holdfast

laminaria
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bryozoan
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fucus
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Holdfast Sentence Examples

  • The hollow holdfast of furbelows, covered in suction pads.

  • The loops of blue and taches of gold, never let go their holdfast.

  • In germination of the seed the root of the embryo (radicle) grows out to get a holdfast for the plant; this is generally followed by the growth of the short stem immediately above the root, the so-called "hypocotyl," which carries up the cotyledons above the ground, where they spread to the light and become the first green leaves of the plant.

  • The most fundamental external differentiation is into holdfast and shoot.

  • Besides the differentiation into holdfast and shoot, and into branches of limited and branches of unlimited growth, there appear superficial structures of the nature of hairs.

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