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Your nomination could contain a direct piece of veg-love, it could just be a passing reference, but either way it needs to be a song or a lyric that really offers up some respect to our funky, frondy friends.
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The garden in front was mossy and frondy, with ponds and fountains.
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I wanted the sort-of palm frondy elephant-ear shaped five blade fan, but M convinced me a simpler, more elegant design would look better in the room.
Sunday: gas grills, ceiling fans, stickbuzz badger 2004
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The cypress he had associated with her, had been near to seeing as containing her spirit, was down, was lying on the grass, its frondy branches already wilting in the heat.
Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories Rendell, Ruth 2000
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The short frondy trees, their sunlit leaf-branches chattering gently in the light breeze, did a fair job at beating the starkness, like gift-wrapping on a shovel.
Smokescreen Francis, Dick 1972
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The short frondy trees, their sunlit leaf-branches chattering gently in the light breeze, did a fair job at beating the starkness, like gift-wrapping on a shovel.
Smokescreen Francis, Dick 1972
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Your nomination could contain a direct piece of veg-love, it could just be a passing reference, but either way it needs to be a song or a lyric that really offers up some respect to our funky, frondy friends.
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It looks like a lacy, very dainty version of parsley, which is no surprise seeing as they're close cousins, both in the umbelliferae family, along with frondy carrots and fennel.
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The gardens of this part of west London had the exaggerated look of a seedsman’s catalog illustrations, banks of pink and white blossom above cushions of purple and rose, all overhung by frondy branches of lemony green and a rich dark emerald.
Portobello Ruth Rendell 2010
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