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Definition of Fronds
1. frond [n] - See also: frond
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fronds
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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