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Definitions of frond
  1. noun
    compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad
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Definition that contains frond
  • fern any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
  • kelp large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds
  • anemia genus of terrestrial or lithophytic ferns having pinnatifid fronds; chiefly of tropical America
  • stipe supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap
  • laver seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds
  • fiddlehead New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
  • fiddlehead tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
  • polypodium aureum tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium
  • cinnamon fern New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
  • leptopteris superba New Zealand with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks; sometimes included in genus Todea
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