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单词 frond
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frondn.1

Brit. /frɒnd/, U.S. /frɑnd/
Etymology: < Latin frond-, frōns leaf, applied by Linnæus in a specific sense, in contradistinction to folium leaf.
1. Botany. The leaf-like organ formed by the union of stem and foliage in certain flowerless plants. Formerly (and still in general language) applied also to the large compound leaves, e.g. of the palm, banana, etc.
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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [noun] > frond(s)
frond1785
frondage1842
frondlet1862
frondescence1888
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Leaf Frondes expresses leaves consisting of several other leaves and forming the whole plant.]
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxxii. 489 Our common species..may be known by the frond or leaf being ovate.
1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 478 The lower larger fronds were digitated, or rather radiated.
1840 E. Newman Hist. Brit. Ferns Introd. (1844) 31 The fronds of ferns are generally much divided.
1858 T. R. Jones Aquarian Naturalist 14 One or two fragments of stone with fronds of green sea-weed growing thereon.
1874 J. C. Geikie Life in Woods (ed. 2) vi. 110 The broad fronds of the pine trees.
1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ II. lv. 396 Cutting fronds..from the palm-trees that then lined the path.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 235 A frond differs from an ordinary leaf in usually bearing fructification.
attributive.1877 F. G. Heath Fern World 112 One of the latter contains a frond-bud or imperfect germ.
2. Zoology. A leaf-like expansion found in certain animal organisms.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > plant-like > leaf-like
frond1846
foliole1849
sepal1894
1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes 323 Small, foliaceous, fronds solitary.
1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 370 The fronds are mucilaginous when young.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

frondn.2

Brit. /frɒnd/, U.S. /frɑnd/
Etymology: < French fronde lit. ‘sling’. The New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon gives, as obsolete, a latinized form frondium.
Surgery.
(See quot. 1848.)
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > bandage > [noun] > bandage for specific part
wristband1663
suspensory1699
etoile1706
scapular1739
scapulary1754
accipiter1813
frond1848
stapes1875
suspensor1896
1848 J. Craig New Universal Dict. 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

frondv.

Brit. /frɒnd/, U.S. /frɑnd/
Etymology: < frond n.1
intransitive. To wave with fronds.Apparently an isolated use.
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1866 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell i A massive wood..crisping, fronding, feathering..here and there.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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