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frond

(frɒnd)
Word forms: plural fronds
countable noun
A frond is a long leaf which has an edge divided into lots of thin parts.
...palm fronds.

frond in British English

(frɒnd)
noun
1. 
a large compound leaf, esp of a fern
2. 
the thallus of a seaweed or a lichen
Derived forms
fronded (ˈfronded)
adjective
frondless (ˈfrondless)
adjective
Word origin
C18: from Latin frōns

frond in American English

(frɑnd)
noun
1. 
a leaf
; specif.,
a. 
the leaf of a fern
b. 
the leaf of a palm
2. 
the leaflike part, or shoot, of a lichen, seaweed, duckweed, etc.
Derived forms
fronded (ˈfronded)
adjective
Word origin
L frons (gen. frondis), leafy branch, foliage

Examples of 'frond' in a sentence
frond

Humans are tossed from scene to scene like fronds of seaweed.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Forms a spreading mass of deep green leathery fronds.
Bloom, Adrian Winter Garden Glory (1993)
Dodge the fronds of seaweed and swim with crabs before watching the tide wash back.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
 Keep any wispy fronds to one side.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Just cut out the old fronds to keep it smart.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The palm fronds can be made to give shelter.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The palm fronds moved above them.
various & introduction by Deirdre Chapman A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990 (1990)
Now they look rather battered, but many of the fronds will stay green throughout the winter.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Trim the fennel and slice as thinly as possible, keeping any fronds.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Trim and finely slice a bulb of fennel, keeping any fronds.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
We learnt about rock formations and beetles, fern fronds and fossils.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
A majestic fern that looks fabulous in spring when its fresh green fronds appear.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The same process can also be applied to fennel - cover the bulb but leave the feathery fronds free.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It is still young and has not begun to push up a trunk but the fronds are 7ft long already.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It sends up a ring of bright green fronds that look like a fountain, and these can grow up to three feet high.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It was not until Sirius touched the first of the western palm fronds that he had sunk back to something near his former depth.
Patrick O'Brian The Catalans
Trim the long stems from the fennel, keeping any fronds, then core and slice the remainder very thinly.
The Sun (2015)
Entering her west London home is like stepping into a seasonal greenhouse, with tables heaped with palm fronds and twinkling candles.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The Times found them there yesterday, huddled from the torrential rain under fragile shelters made of palm fronds and torn pieces of tarpaulin.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Make sure that you protect tender perennials with a mulch of some kind... compost, chopped dead stems and fern fronds or sand.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
One contains a brick cooking stove; another, a basin used for soaking the palm fronds from which the monks weaved mats or baskets.
Christianity Today (2000)
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