Definition of "frond" [frond]

• The leaf of a fern. (noun)
• A large compound leaf of a palm. (noun)
• A leaflike thallus, as of a seaweed or lichen. (noun)

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• "Ladies did not disdain those pagan ironed times of the firs; city (called after the ugliest Danadune) when a frond was a friend inneed to carry, as earwigs do their dead, their soil to the earth-ball where indeeth we shall calm decline, our legacy unknown."
• "In Greek and Latin it means palm frond, that is, something torn off the tree."
• "The bracts at the base of the frond were a prized Maori delicacy."