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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Venose :: Venose (a.) Having numerous or conspicuous veins; veiny; as, a venose frond..
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..
Sea Cucumber :: Sea cucumber () Any large holothurian, especially one of those belonging to the genus Pentacta, or Cucumaria, as the common American and European species. (P. frondosa)..
Osmund :: Osmund (n.) A fern of the genus Osmunda, or flowering fern. The most remarkable species is the osmund royal, or royal fern (Osmunda regalis), which grows in wet or boggy places, and has large bipinnate fronds, often with a panicle of capsules at the top. The rootstock contains much starch, and has been used in stiffening linen..
Liverwort :: Liverwort (n.) A flowerless plant (Marchantia polymorpha), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond..
Mannite :: Mannite (n.) A sweet white efflorescence from dried fronds of kelp, especially from those of the Laminaria saccharina, or devil's apron..
Frondation :: Frondation (n.) The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning..
Sea Girdles :: Sea girdles () A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle..
Frondeur :: Frondeur (n.) A member of the Fronde.
Fern :: Fern (n.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size..
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..
Sorus :: Sorus (n.) One of the fruit dots, or small clusters of sporangia, on the back of the fronds of ferns..
Stipe :: Stipe (n.) The stalk or petiole of a frond, as of a fern..
Frondescence :: Frondescence (n.) The time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves.
Frondent :: Frondent (a.) Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree..
Frondous :: Frondous (a.) Frondose.
Sea Trumpet :: Sea trumpet () A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long..
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..
Female Fern :: Female fern () a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfaemina), growing in many countries; lady fern..
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..
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