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▪ I. frond, n.1|frɒnd|
[ad. L. frond-, frōns leaf, applied by Linnæus in a specific sense, in contradistinction to folium leaf.]
1. Bot. The leaf-like organ formed by the union of stem and foliage in certain flowerless plants. Formerly (and still in loose popular language) applied also to the large compound leaves, e.g. of the palm, banana, etc.
[1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Leaf, Frondes expresses leaves consisting of several other leaves and forming the whole plant.] 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxxii. 489 Our common species..may be known by the frond or leaf being ovate. 1791W. Bartram Carolina 478 The lower larger fronds were digitated, or rather radiated. 1840E. Newman Brit. Ferns Introd. (1844) 31 The fronds of ferns are generally much divided. 1858T. R. Jones Aquar. Nat. 14 One or two fragments of stone with fronds of green sea-weed growing thereon. 1874C. Geikie Life in Woods vi. 110 The broad fronds of the pine trees. 1877― Christ liv. (1879) 661 Cutting fronds..from the palm-trees, that lined the path. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 235 A frond differs from an ordinary leaf in usually bearing fructification.
attrib.1877F. G. Heath Fern W. 112 One of the latter contains a frond-bud or imperfect germ.
2. Zool. A leaf-like expansion found in certain animal organisms.
1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 323 Small, foliaceous, fronds solitary. 1876Harley Mat. Med. (ed. 6) 370 The fronds are mucilaginous when young.
▪ II. frond, n.2 Surg.|frɒnd|
[ad. F. fronde lit. ‘sling’. The Syd. Soc. Lex. gives, as obsolete, a latinized form frondium.]
(See quot.)
1848Craig, Frond..a bandage employed principally in wounds and diseases of the nose and chin, and more especially in cases of fracture or dislocation of the lower jaw.
▪ III. frond, v. nonce-wd.|frɒnd|
[f. frond n.1]
intr. To wave with fronds.
1866Blackmore Cradock Nowell i, A massive wood..crisping, fronding, feathering..here and there.
▪ IV. frond
obs. form of friend. |