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- Frond - n. - The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.
- Frondation - n. - The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning.
- Fronde - n. - A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.
- Fronded - a. - Furnished with fronds.
- Frondent - a. - Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree.
- Frondesce - v. i. - To unfold leaves, as plants.
- Frondescence - n. - The time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves.
- Frondescence - n. - The act of bursting into leaf.
- Frondeur - n. - A member of the Fronde.
- Frondiferous - a. - Producing fronds.
- Frondlet - n. - A very small frond, or distinct portion of a compound frond.
- Frondose - a. - Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves.
- Frondose - a. - Leafy.
- Frondous - a. - Frondose.
- Pinnule - n. - One of the small divisions of a decompound frond or leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate.
- Polypodium - n. - A genus of plants of the order Filices or ferns. The fructifications are in uncovered roundish points, called sori, scattered over the inferior surface of the frond or leaf. There are numerous species.
- Proliferous - a. - Bearing offspring; -- applied to a flower from within which another is produced, or to a branch or frond from which another rises, or to a plant which is reproduced by buds or gemmae.