frond
IPA: frˈɑnd
noun
- (botany) The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.
- Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf.
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Examples of "frond" in Sentences
- This produces feathery fronds in steps.
- The third draws the bottom frond on the left.
- The second draws the bottom frond on the left.
- Scales are also present on the bottoms of the fronds.
- The stipe and blade are collectively known as the frond.
- An identifying feature is the toothed edges of the fronds.
- She brushed a frond aside to touch the bottom of the glass.
- The bracts at the base of the frond were a prized Maori delicacy.
- The spores are produced on small pinnules toward the apex of the frond.
- The larvae of this limpet species settle and metamorphose on the algal frond.
- The last segment of the frond is irregular and asymmetrical, on a short stem.
- The sori or spores grow on the underside of the frond, in irregular patterns.
- In Greek and Latin it means palm frond, that is, something torn off the tree.
- That's Agent Dry Mouth with his palm frond: Tarzan's gorilla housemaid, making the jungle cosy and domestic.
- This particular type of palm frond, or lulav, is one of four species of flora that Jews ritualize in their observance of the harvest festival.
- The episode proper this week began with a shot of Special Agent Dry Mouth, in the early morning, while his entire tribe was trying to sleep, gratuitously pissing them off, using a palm frond to sweep the jungle!
- Ladies did not disdain those pagan ironed times of the firs; city (called after the ugliest Danadune) when a frond was a friend inneed to carry, as earwigs do their dead, their soil to the earth-ball where indeeth we shall calm decline, our legacy unknown.