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Frond vs Fronded - What's the difference?

frond | fronded |

As a noun frond

is (botany) the leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.

As an adjective fronded is

bearing fronds.

frond

English

(wikipedia frond)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.
  • Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf.
  • fronded

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Bearing fronds.
  • * 1909 , ,
  • 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 , , Chapter 5: The Trees of the Valley,
  • The branches, outspread in flat plumes and, beautifully fronded , sweep gracefully downward and outward, .
  • * 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,
  • * 2008 , Peter Sercombe, Bernard Sellato, Beyond the Green Myth: Borneo's Hunter-Gatherers in the Twenty-First Century , page 60,
  • 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,