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
“We know not where His islands lift their fronded palms in air; we only know we cannot drift beyond His love and care,” said Mrs. Applegate, with a solemn aside.
From By the Light of the Soul A Novel by Harold M. Brett
But a sylvan path o'erstrewn with leaves, and bordered with many fronded ferns, discovers the fountain in full bearing.
From The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway by Robert Lloyd Praeger
