The centipede scuttled under the fallen palm frond.
Source: tatoeba (11880588)
Frond
//fɹɑnd//
Synonyms for "frond" (57 found)
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Related words (28)
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Translations
38 translations across 25 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- съставен лист noun (leaf of a fern)
Catalan
1 entries- fronda noun (leaf of a fern)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 植物体 noun (leaf of a fern)
Czech
1 entries- vějířovitý list noun (leaf of a fern)
Dutch
1 entries- varenblad noun (leaf of a fern)
Esperanto
1 entries- frondo noun (leaf of a fern)
Finnish
3 entries- lehti noun (leaf or object resembling a fern leaf)
- saniaisen lehti noun (leaf of a fern)
- saniaisen lehti noun (leaf or object resembling a fern leaf)
French
1 entries- fronde noun (leaf of a fern)
Galician
1 entries- fronde noun (leaf of a fern)
German
4 entries- Farnkrautwedel noun (leaf of a fern)
- Farnwedel noun (leaf of a fern)
- Palmwedel noun (leaf or object resembling a fern leaf)
- Wedel noun (leaf of a fern)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- fwonn noun (leaf of a fern)
Hawaiian
1 entries- hā noun (leaf or object resembling a fern leaf)
Indonesian
1 entries- ental noun (leaf of a fern)
Italian
1 entries- fronda noun (leaf of a fern)
Kazakh
1 entries- вайя noun (leaf of a fern)
Marathi
1 entries- विपर्ण noun (leaf of a fern)
Māori
4 entries- nīkau noun (leaf of a fern)
- rauhuru noun (leaf of a fern)
- tētē noun (leaf of a fern)
- tētēkura noun (leaf of a fern)
Persian
1 entries- برگشاخه noun (leaf of a fern)
Polish
2 entries- liść ozdobny noun (leaf or object resembling a fern leaf)
- liść paproci noun (leaf of a fern)
Portuguese
1 entries- fronde noun (leaf of a fern)
Russian
2 entries- ва́йя noun (leaf of a fern)
- лист па́поротника noun (leaf of a fern)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- geug-dhuilleagach noun (leaf of a fern)
Spanish
2 entries- fronda noun (leaf of a fern)
- fronde noun (leaf of a fern)
Tagalog
1 entries- dakdahon noun (leaf of a fern)
Ukrainian
1 entries- вайя noun (leaf of a fern)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
From the topmost palm frond to the overcolored fungi patching the black earth arrogant Beauty ruled, but to the weary eyes that looked upon her she was become an evil queen.
Source: tatoeba (12043590)
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.
Source: wiktionary
Scores of coconut-shell fires blazed with their characteristic glaring white flame, throwing grotesque shadows on the brown thatched huts, dancing in fairylike shimmerings among the domes of coconut fronds, casting ghostly reaches of light through the adjacent graveyards, and silhouetting the forms of pareu-clad natives at work cleaning their fish or laying them on the live coals to broil.
Source: wiktionary
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