Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Leafy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Covered with leaves; leafy.

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  • adjective Covered with leaves; leafy.

Etymologies

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Latin frondens, present participle of frondere to put forth leaves. See frond.

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Examples

  • Course, with high-frondent Avenues, pitchy dockyards, almond and olive groves, orange trees on house-tops, and white glittering bastides that crown the hills, are all behind them.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Yes, yonder, Mesdames, where our straight frondent Avenue, joined, as you note, by Two frondent brother Avenues from this hand and from that, spreads out into Place Royale and Palace Forecourt; yonder is the

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • ** Nunc frondent fylvs nunc formoiiffimus annus. "

    The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

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  • From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution

    March 6, 2011