frond
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See also: Frönd
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin frons, frond- (“leafy branch”).
Pronunciation
Noun
frond (plural fronds)
- (botany) The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.
- Hyponyms: fertile frond, sterile frond
- Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf.
- palm frond
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 35:
- Scores of coconut-shell fires blazed with their characteristic glaring white flame, throwing grotesque shadows on the brown thatched huts, dancing in fairylike shimmerings among the domes of coconut fronds, casting ghostly reaches of light through the adjacent graveyards, and silhouetting the forms of pareu-clad natives at work cleaning their fish or laying them on the live coals to broil.
Derived terms
Translations
leaf of a fern
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leaf or object resembling a fern leaf
Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
frond
- Alternative form of frend