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Frond

//fɹɑnd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.

    "By the bank, fifty yards below Elm Island, stood the Master, looking into water six inches deep. A fern frond, knocked off the bank upstream, came down turning like a little green dragon in the clear water."

  2. 2
    compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad wordnet
  3. 3
    Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf.

    "palm frond"

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frons, frond- (“leafy branch”).

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