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Examples of frond
frond
One is topped with pearls of black caviar, another with a wispy frond of dill.
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They have spiky, frond-like foliage that harkens back to a prehistoric age.
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Chop a portion of the frond to get 1 tablespoon chopped fennel for garnish.
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The middle vein of a compound leaf or a frond, when it is present, is called a rachis.
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In the wild, these ferns also feed off their own composted frond material.
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A palm frond served as my checkered flag, waving me across the street.
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In some fronds the pinna are further divided into segments, creating a bipinnate frond.
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All of it was artistically arranged on a banana leaf plate, served in a palm frond basket.
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The counter in front of the kitchen is decorated like a tiki hut with a palm frond roof.
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- Compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad
- The term frond refers to a large, divided leaf. In both common usage and botanical nomenclature, the leaves of ferns are referred to as fronds and some botanists restrict the term to this group. Other botanists allow the term frond to also apply to the large leaves of cycads and palms (Arecaceae)
- The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf; Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf
- (Fronds) In the strictest sense, refers to the foliage of ferns, but the word is sometimes used to designate any foliage that looks fernlike, and also the featherlike leaves of many palms.
- (Fronds) The leaves of ferns. Fern fronds maybe uncut (undivided), once-cut (divided into subdivisions), twice-cut (divided into subdivisions twice-the subdivisions are themselves subdivided), or thrice-cut (divided into subdivisions three times-the subdivisions of the subdivisions are also ...
- The "leaf" part of an algae. Not only does the frond take up and release gasses like the leaves of land plants, it also takes in nutrients from the surrounding water.
- The leaf of a fern. Fronds range greatly in size and can be undivided or multidivided.
- In ferns, a leaf, often compound or dissected, borne on a rhizome.
- The photosynthetic leaf blade of a fern.
