Frond vs Fronded - What's the difference?
frond | fronded |
(botany) The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.
Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf.
Bearing fronds.
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* 1912 , , Chapter 5: The Trees of the Valley,
* 1966 , Malacological Society of Australia, Malacological Society of Australia , Issues 1-10,
* 2008 , Peter Sercombe, Bernard Sellato, Beyond the Green Myth: Borneo's Hunter-Gatherers in the Twenty-First Century ,
As a noun frond
is (botany) the leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.As an adjective fronded is
bearing fronds.frond
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(wikipedia frond)Noun
(en noun)fronded
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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;
- The branches, outspread in flat plumes and, beautifully fronded , sweep gracefully downward and outward, .
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- 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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- 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,
