Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A leaf of a fern.
- noun A large compound leaf of a palm.
- noun A leaflike thallus, as of a seaweed or lichen.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In bot.:
- noun As used by Linnæus, a leaf, especially the leaf of a palm or fern.
- noun Now, specifically, a leaf of a fern or other cryptogam, the thallus of a lichen, or any other leaf-like expansion which includes both stem and foliage, as the disk of Lemna.
- noun In zoology, the foliaceous or leaf-like expansion of certain animal organisms, as of various polyzoans and actinozoans, which resemble plants in the mode of growth of the polypstock.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; ; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The
leaf of afern , especially acompound leaf. - noun Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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In Greek and Latin it means palm frond, that is, something torn off the tree.
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The bracts at the base of the frond were a prized Maori delicacy.
Museum Blogs 2010
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This particular type of palm frond, or lulav, is one of four species of flora that Jews ritualize in their observance of the harvest festival.
Danny Groner: The High Price Of Sukkot Danny Groner 2011
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This particular type of palm frond, or lulav, is one of four species of flora that Jews ritualize in their observance of the harvest festival.
Danny Groner: The High Price Of Sukkot Danny Groner 2011
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The episode proper this week began with a shot of Special Agent Dry Mouth, in the early morning, while his entire tribe was trying to sleep, gratuitously pissing them off, using a palm frond to sweep the jungle!
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 22: Rerun Island: Russell Blows It, Mansweater Sucks It, and Big Mouth Stamps It. Tallulah Morehead 2011
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That's Agent Dry Mouth with his palm frond: Tarzan's gorilla housemaid, making the jungle cosy and domestic.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 22: Rerun Island: Russell Blows It, Mansweater Sucks It, and Big Mouth Stamps It. Tallulah Morehead 2011
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She brushed a frond aside to touch the bottom of the glass.
X, Chapter 2: Min Benjamin Matvey 2012
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That's Agent Dry Mouth with his palm frond: Tarzan's gorilla housemaid, making the jungle cosy and domestic.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 22: Rerun Island: Russell Blows It, Mansweater Sucks It, and Big Mouth Stamps It. Tallulah Morehead 2011
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The episode proper this week began with a shot of Special Agent Dry Mouth, in the early morning, while his entire tribe was trying to sleep, gratuitously pissing them off, using a palm frond to sweep the jungle!
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 22: Rerun Island: Russell Blows It, Mansweater Sucks It, and Big Mouth Stamps It. Tallulah Morehead 2011
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