Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Bearing, resembling, or having a profusion of leaves or fronds; leafy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bursting or having the appearance of bursting into leaf.
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- adjective
Leafy ; becoming leafy; resembling leaves.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the case of frondescent flowers of _Tropæolum majus_ the stamens are usually absent or atrophied, but in other instances the filament is present as usual, representing the stalk of the leaf, and surmounted by
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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One of the most interesting cases of this kind that has fallen under the writer's observation was in _Euphorbia geniculata_, in which, in addition to other changes mentioned under prolification of the inflorescence, some of the stamens were partly frondescent, half the anther being perfect, the other half leaf-like.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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M. Germain de Saint Pierre, [287] in commenting on the frequency with which the flowers of this plant are more or less frondescent, remarks that although all the flowers on one plant may be affected, they are all changed in the same manner, but on different specimens different degrees of transformation are found.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The frondescent petals are very often completely disjoined, as in
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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a few stamens, some perfect, others partially frondescent.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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