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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Frondeur :: Frondeur (n.) A member of the Fronde.
Frondous :: Frondous (a.) Frondose.
Frondose :: Frondose (a.) Leafy.
Frond :: 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..
Sea Girdles :: Sea girdles () A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle..
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..
Proliferous :: Proliferous (a.) Bearing offspring; -- applied to a flower from within which another is produced, or to a branch or frond from which another rises, or to a plant which is reproduced by buds or gemmae..
Female Fern :: Female fern () a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfaemina), growing in many countries; lady fern..
Dangleberry :: Dangleberry (n.) A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward..
Valonia :: Valonia (n.) A genus of marine green algae, in which the whole frond consists of a single oval or cylindrical cell, often an inch in length..
Frondent :: Frondent (a.) Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree..
Sorus :: Sorus (n.) One of the fruit dots, or small clusters of sporangia, on the back of the fronds of ferns..
Venose :: Venose (a.) Having numerous or conspicuous veins; veiny; as, a venose frond..
Frondlet :: Frondlet (n.) A very small frond, or distinct portion of a compound frond..
Ceterach :: Ceterach (n.) A species of fern with fronds (Asplenium Ceterach).
Fenestrate :: Fenestrate (a.) Having numerous openings; irregularly reticulated; as, fenestrate membranes; fenestrate fronds..
Lunary :: Lunary (n.) A low fleshy fern (Botrychium Lunaria) with lunate segments of the leaf or frond.
Megaphyton :: Megaphyton (n.) An extinct genus of tree ferns with large, two-ranked leaves, or fronds..
Sea Laces :: Sea laces () A kind of seaweed (Chorda Filum) having blackish cordlike fronds, often many feet long..
Liverwort :: Liverwort (n.) A flowerless plant (Marchantia polymorpha), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond..
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