Definition of Fronds

1. Noun. (plural of frond) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fronds

1. frond [n] - See also: frond

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fronds

frondent
frondesce
frondesced
frondescence
frondescent
frondesces
frondescing
frondeur
frondeurs
frondiferous
frondlet
frondlets
frondlike
frondose
frondous
fronds (current term)
frons
front
front(a)
front-end
front-end loader
front-ends
front-line
front-load
front-loaded
front-organization
front-porch campaign
front-porch campaigning
front-runner
front-runners

Literary usage of Fronds

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Low, mostly with 2-H-pinnate and hairy or chaffy, rarely smooth fronds, ... fronds (1-4 dm. high) lanceolate-oblong, hirsute, as are the brown and shining ..."

2. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"fronds mostly solitary, erect from a root of thickened fleshy fibres ... fronds 3'-10'high, the succulent stem divided down to the surface of the ground, ..."

3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Rootstock very slender, creeping : fronds 4 to 6 inches long, ... Veins free in the California!! species, the fronds mostly large and once or twice pinnate. ..."

4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"D. Segments and sinuses of the fertile fronds very broad...(i. ... Fertile fronds wedge-shaped in outline and merely wavy at the margin. ..."

5. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"200) develop buds on almost all their fronds. In most cases they spring from ... 199), from the apices of the fronds, that is to say from the extremities of ..."

6. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1901)
"Frost fronds.—On the morning of January 29, as I was walking from Hampstead down 'Haverstock Hill into London, about 9.30, my attention was attracted by the ..."

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