What (who) is frond - definition

COLLECTION OF LEAFLETS ON A PLANT

Fronds; Fern frond; Frondose (plant); Frond (botany); Frond (plant); Fern leaves

frond

(fronds)

A frond is a long leaf which has an edge divided into lots of thin parts.

...palm fronds.

N-COUNT: usu with supp

Frond

·noun The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.

frond

¦ noun the leaf or leaf-like part of a palm, fern, or similar plant.

Derivatives

fronded adjective

frondose adjective

Origin

C18: from L. frons, frond- 'leaf'.

Wikipedia

Frond

A frond is a large, divided leaf. In both common usage and botanical nomenclature, the leaves of ferns are referred to as fronds and some botanists restrict the term to this group. Other botanists allow the term frond to also apply to the large leaves of cycads, as well as palms (Arecaceae) and various other flowering plants, such as mimosa or sumac. "Frond" is commonly used to identify a large, compound leaf, but if the term is used botanically to refer to the leaves of ferns and algae it may be applied to smaller and undivided leaves.

Fronds have particular terms describing their components. Like all leaves, fronds usually have a stalk connecting them to the main stem. In botany, this leaf stalk is generally called a petiole, but in regard to fronds specifically it is called a stipe, and it supports a flattened blade (which may be called a lamina), and the continuation of the stipe into this portion is called the rachis. The blades may be simple (undivided), pinnatifid (deeply incised, but not truly compound), pinnate (compound with the leaflets arranged along a rachis to resemble a feather), or further compound (subdivided). If compound, a frond may be compound once, twice, or more.

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Pronunciation examples for frond

1. SPEAKER: A little bit of fennel frond.

Bringing It Home - Favorite Recipes _ Gail Simmons _ Talks at Google

2. I saved some of the frond.

Salad Demo from The Broad Fork _ Hugh Acheson _ Talks at Google

3. I was there. She was peeling this palm frond apart,

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4. I'm going to get a little bit more of that frond in there.

Salad Demo from The Broad Fork _ Hugh Acheson _ Talks at Google

5. I'm going to take this little bit of frond that I've got,

Salad Demo from The Broad Fork _ Hugh Acheson _ Talks at Google

Examples of use of frond

1. They resemble tiny red palm trees, with frond–like red gills.

2. Newspapers carried pictures of the green face on a frond of a seven–meter–high tree.

3. The frond will probably last another two weeks before it sheds, she said.

4. Special holiday items were in the hut, including the frond of a date palm tree and an etrog, a citrus fruit.

5. Louis Bertrand Catholic Church in East Oakland, gripped a palm frond like a walking stick and led a 5,000–strong procession down the middle of International Boulevard.