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Definition of frond in English:

frond

noun frɒndfrɑnd
  • The leaf or leaflike part of a palm, fern, or similar plant.

    (棕榈类、蕨类或类似植物的)叶;叶状体

    fronds of bracken

    欧洲蕨的叶。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Pieced together, they represent Wattieza, a tree that looked like modern-day palm with a crown of fronds that grew up to 30 feet high and reproduced through spores.
    • On the outside edge, starting about a foot from the cut end, notch the frond until you get all the way across.
    • ‘Fed up with the cost of caring for the trees, with their errant fronds that plunge perilously each winter, and with the fact that they provide little shade,’ Los Angeles has declared war on its iconic, though invasive, palm trees.
    • To understand these diagrams it is important to keep in mind that the duckweed plants consists of a cluster of fronds descended from a single mother frond.
    • She heard some rustling, and glanced out the window at the palm tree waving its fronds in the wind.
    • For a number of years after I moved out to Los Angeles, I had a palm tree with a frond that hung out over the pool.
    • Ferns increase in percent cover until July when the fronds are fully expanded.
    • In one hectare, the utilizable wood volume of coconut fronds per palm is about 996 board feet per year.
    • Leaving fronds with nesting bats untrimmed keeps the young bat families safe and the trimming of other palm fronds nearby does not disturb them.
    • The frond of this fern has two forms of pinnae.
    • During the breeding season they develop a golden wash on the upper wing due to their habit of nesting in the fronds of the palm trees.
    • To give your palms an instant face lift, remove any dead fronds, heavy seed heads and remnants of dead stalk from the trunks.
    • You can pick out a range of subtle colours in the vegetation: the russet fronds of bracken, the fresh green stems of bilberry and the purple twigs of birch.
    • I looked and could see nothing at all but dried, brown leaves with a few delicate fern fronds thrusting through them.
    • Once the fronds have given off their spores, they die and can be cut back.
    • Fallen leaves are swept into heaps, only to be blown away again and large palm fronds and tree branches scatter the tarmac.
    • The branches seem to be laid out flat, like fern fronds, while it is the colouring that gives the foliage variety of appearance and depth.
    • The fern most prized by the Maori was Asplenium bulbiferum, the hen and chicken fern, so called because of its habit of producing new plants on the old fronds.
    • Around the trunk of this tree were tied leaves and fronds, and - a pile of little pots and dishes of meat were laid out on what looked like a kind of altar.
    • It's leaves are deeply cut, but many stems make up a single frond on this plant.

Derivatives

  • frondage

  • noun
  • fronded

  • adjective
    • Besides dozens of vineyards and wineries great and small, Calistoga has a climate warm enough to sustain lushly fronded palm trees - the kind with the thick trunks.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Marcus was stood looking a little guilty and found out by the plastic fronded trunk of a clipped and trimmed Spruce.
      • The treated seaweed from each test was sorted into a first fraction exhibiting a sticky compacted characteristic, and a second exhibiting the original fronded springy characteristics.
      • This species appears to be closely related to the simple fronded aquatic ferns that are here referred to as Micosorium brassii.
      • The Muricidae includes many large, spectacularly spined and delicately fronded species which are favourites with collectors.
  • frondose

  • adjective frɒnˈdəʊs
    • Several other specimens overlap underlying recumbent organisms or smaller frondose taxa.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Large chambers, such as those in frondose bryozoan colonies, accommodated a large number of organisms, perhaps representing several instars in multiple generations.
      • Several of the Mistaken Point frondose fossils, notably Aspidella, Charnia and Charniodiscus, have unusually wide geographical and environmental ranges in contrast to most other Ediacaran taxa.
      • Those adapted to it, namely the radially organized frondose Petalonamae (of possible ctenophoran affinities), anchored in the mat with their basal bulbs.
      • The general trend through succession appears to have been the replacement of flat-lying organisms with upright, frondose organisms, possibly as sediment became increasingly stabilized by microbial mat.

Origin

Late 18th century: from Latin frons, frond- 'leaf'.

Rhymes

abscond, beau monde, beyond, blonde, bond, correspond, demi-monde, despond, fond, Gironde, haut monde, pond, respond, ronde, second, wand

Definition of frond in US English:

frond

nounfrändfrɑnd
  • The leaf or leaflike part of a palm, fern, or similar plant.

    (棕榈类、蕨类或类似植物的)叶;叶状体

    fronds of bracken

    欧洲蕨的叶。

    figurative her hair escaped in wayward fronds

    〈喻〉她的头发如方向不定的树叶,任意生长。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's leaves are deeply cut, but many stems make up a single frond on this plant.
    • The frond of this fern has two forms of pinnae.
    • To understand these diagrams it is important to keep in mind that the duckweed plants consists of a cluster of fronds descended from a single mother frond.
    • For a number of years after I moved out to Los Angeles, I had a palm tree with a frond that hung out over the pool.
    • The branches seem to be laid out flat, like fern fronds, while it is the colouring that gives the foliage variety of appearance and depth.
    • The fern most prized by the Maori was Asplenium bulbiferum, the hen and chicken fern, so called because of its habit of producing new plants on the old fronds.
    • During the breeding season they develop a golden wash on the upper wing due to their habit of nesting in the fronds of the palm trees.
    • She heard some rustling, and glanced out the window at the palm tree waving its fronds in the wind.
    • To give your palms an instant face lift, remove any dead fronds, heavy seed heads and remnants of dead stalk from the trunks.
    • ‘Fed up with the cost of caring for the trees, with their errant fronds that plunge perilously each winter, and with the fact that they provide little shade,’ Los Angeles has declared war on its iconic, though invasive, palm trees.
    • On the outside edge, starting about a foot from the cut end, notch the frond until you get all the way across.
    • I looked and could see nothing at all but dried, brown leaves with a few delicate fern fronds thrusting through them.
    • Around the trunk of this tree were tied leaves and fronds, and - a pile of little pots and dishes of meat were laid out on what looked like a kind of altar.
    • In one hectare, the utilizable wood volume of coconut fronds per palm is about 996 board feet per year.
    • Pieced together, they represent Wattieza, a tree that looked like modern-day palm with a crown of fronds that grew up to 30 feet high and reproduced through spores.
    • Leaving fronds with nesting bats untrimmed keeps the young bat families safe and the trimming of other palm fronds nearby does not disturb them.
    • You can pick out a range of subtle colours in the vegetation: the russet fronds of bracken, the fresh green stems of bilberry and the purple twigs of birch.
    • Ferns increase in percent cover until July when the fronds are fully expanded.
    • Fallen leaves are swept into heaps, only to be blown away again and large palm fronds and tree branches scatter the tarmac.
    • Once the fronds have given off their spores, they die and can be cut back.

Origin

Late 18th century: from Latin frons, frond- ‘leaf’.

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