Definition of frond

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Frond (n.) 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..

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Retepore :: Retepore (n.) Any one of several species of bryozoans of the genus Retepora. They form delicate calcareous corals, usually composed of thin fenestrated fronds..
Female Fern :: Female fern () a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfaemina), growing in many countries; lady fern..
Fronded :: Fronded (a.) Furnished with fronds.
Laver :: Laver (n.) The fronds of certain marine algae used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purple laver, Porphyra laciniata and P. vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; -- called also sloke, or sloakan..
Lunary :: Lunary (n.) A low fleshy fern (Botrychium Lunaria) with lunate segments of the leaf or frond.
Usnea :: Usnea (n.) A genus of lichens, most of the species of which have long, gray, pendulous, and finely branched fronds. Usnea barbata is the common bearded lichen which grows on branches of trees in northern forests..
Frondous :: Frondous (a.) Frondose.
Frondose :: Frondose (a.) Leafy.
Megaphyton :: Megaphyton (n.) An extinct genus of tree ferns with large, two-ranked leaves, or fronds..
Frondescence :: Frondescence (n.) The time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves.
Venose :: Venose (a.) Having numerous or conspicuous veins; veiny; as, a venose frond..
Frondation :: Frondation (n.) The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning..
Laminaria :: Laminaria (n.) A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil's apron. The fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length. See Illust. of Kelp..
Frondent :: Frondent (a.) Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree..
Trichomanes :: Trichomanes (n.) Any fern of the genus Trichomanes. The fronds are very delicate and often translucent, and the sporangia are borne on threadlike receptacles rising from the middle of cup-shaped marginal involucres. Several species are common in conservatories; two are native in the United States..
Pulas :: Pulas (n.) The East Indian leguminous tree Butea frondosa. See Gum Butea, under Gum..
Sorus :: Sorus (n.) One of the fruit dots, or small clusters of sporangia, on the back of the fronds of ferns..
Lichen :: Lichen (n.) One of a class of cellular, flowerless plants, (technically called Lichenes), having no distinction of leaf and stem, usually of scaly, expanded, frond-like forms, but sometimes erect or pendulous and variously branched. They derive their nourishment from the air, and generate by means of spores. The species are very widely distributed, and form irregular spots or patches, usually of a greenish or yellowish color, upon rocks, trees, and various bodies, to which they adhere with great
Sea Mat :: Sea mat () Any bryozoan of the genus Flustra or allied genera which form frondlike corals.
Pulu :: Pulu (n.) A vegetable substance consisting of soft, elastic, yellowish brown chaff, gathered in the Hawaiian Islands from the young fronds of free ferns of the genus Cibotium, chiefly C. Menziesii; -- used for stuffing mattresses, cushions, etc., and as an absorbent..
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