frondescence
/frɒnˈdɛs(ə)ns
/noun [mass noun] rare
Green foliage; greenery.The oak and beech have as yet hardly any appearance of frondescence....
- Plants exhibit as much diversity in the warmth and length of time necessary to mature their fruit as in their frondescence and flowering.
- Gregor listened to Nature's breath whispering through the frondescence and to his own breath entering and leaving his body.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from modern Latin frondescentia, from Latin frondescere frequentative of frondere 'send out leaves', from frons, frond- 'leaf'.