frond
noun
an often large, finely divided leaf, especially as applied to the ferns and certain palms.
fronded
-
a word derived from
frond.
Example Sentences
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Beings with quilted folds of soft tissue sat on the seabed like rugs, and life forms that looked like fronded plants but were actually animals made anchor on the ocean floor.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 25, 2022
This Africa so richly blest With golden lands and fronded palms in air, The envy of great nations far and near, May yet the world lead back to peace and rest, Goodwill to all.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of it was pinkish, and fronded like seaweed.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
The sun glistened one moment on sparkling fountains, green parks and fronded palms—its next ray shone on fusing metal, blistered, flame-wrecked squares and charred stumps of trees.
From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Richard Linthicum
Where it pours Past leagues of desert-sand, Jungles and miry places, Palms of an unknown land, Ferns and their fronded faces; Have we gone forth from God!
From The Piper and the Reed by Robert W. Norwood
