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 slender elms were fronded at the top like palms, and the vivid green grass set opposite the pink-gray wall, and the brilliant many-colored lake in magnificent, harmonious contrast.
From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Garland, Hamlin
Then light and swift through the jungle trees We swung in our airy flights, Or breathed in the balms of the fronded palms, In the hush of the moonless nights.
From The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 by Various
