Fronded

Quick meaning: Fronded is an adjective meaning Bearing fronds.

Meaning

Bearing fronds.

Example Sentences

Then light and swift through the jungle trees / We swung in our airy flights, / Or breathed in the balms of the fronded palms / In the hush of the moonless nights;

1912, John Muir, The Yosemite, Chapter 5: The Trees of the Valley, The branches, outspread in flat plumes and, beautifully fronded, sweep gracefully downward and outward, […] .

Headaches, as well as the unease consequent upon bad dreams, can be relieved by making a fronded stick with a rudimentary face (butun); the pain, or the inauspiciousness, is transferred to this stick, which is left in the forest, […]

1966, Malacological Society of Australia, Malacological Society of Australia, Issues 1-10, page 27, On the other hand there is in the author's collection a specimen with single nodules only from 40 fathoms off Wollongong, but more fronded than most shore dwelling forms, […]

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