Frond
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /fɹɒnd/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Frond is a noun meaning (botany) The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.
Meaning
(botany) The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.
More Meanings
- Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf.
Example Sentences
By the bank, fifty yards below Elm Island, stood the Master, looking into water six inches deep. A fern frond, knocked off the bank upstream, came down turning like a little green dragon in the clear water.
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.
Word Forms
- fronds
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include leaf, bipinnate, filiform, frondlet, fern-leaf, ferndom.
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