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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 te·na·cious /təˈneʃəs/
 (a.)緊粘不放的,固執的,緊握的,不屈不撓的

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 te·na·cious /təˈneʃəs/ 形容詞
 粘的,頑固的,粘滯的,堅韌的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Te·na·cious a.
 1. Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.
 2. Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory.
 3. Having parts apt to adhere to each other; cohesive; tough; as, steel is a tenacious metal; tar is more tenacious than oil.
 4. Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive. “Female feet, too weak to struggle with tenacious clay.”
 5. Niggardly; closefisted; miserly.
 6. Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn.
 -- Te*na*cious*ly, adv. -- Te*na*cious*ness, n.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 tenacious
      adj 1: stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour
             determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of
             all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth
             but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious
             of opinion" [syn: bulldog, dogged, dour, pertinacious,
              unyielding]
      2: (of memory) having greater than average range; "a long
         memory especially for insults"; "a tenacious memory" [syn:
          long]
      3: sticking together; "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs"
         [syn: coherent]