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frond

/fɹɒnd/US/fɹɑnd/

frond noun: the leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.

frond: the leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf
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Noun

frond (plural fronds)

  1. The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.
    • By the bank, fifty yards below Elm Island, stood the Master, looking into water six inches deep. A fern frond, knocked off the bank upstream, came down turning like a little green dragon in the clear water.1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19
  2. Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf.
    • palm frond
    • Scores of coconut-shell fires blazed with their characteristic glaring white flame, throwing grotesque shadows on the brown thatched huts, dancing in fairylike shimmerings among the domes of coconut fronds, casting ghostly reaches of light through the adjacent graveyards, and silhouetting the forms...1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 35

frond meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Kannada and Tagalog

frond in Tamil

ஓலை, அகலிலை, மட்டை, இலைக் காம்பு, இலை

frond in Marathi

leaf of a fern
विपर्ण viparṇa

frond in Kannada

ಗರಿ, ಸೋಗೆ

frond in Tagalog

leaf of a fern
dakdahon
More languagesFewer languages
frond in Indonesian
ental
frond in Persian
برگشاخه barg-šâxe

Examples of frond in a sentence

  • The trunk is unbranched, often much shortened, and bears a crown of feathery or pinnate fronds.
  • The pots are formed by the coiling method and bonfired using palm fronds, grass and sometimes dung.
  • How they cast their spells upon, the fronds that thereup float, the bookstaffs branchings!

All 13 example sentences with frond

Forms of frond

pluralfronds

Origin of frond

Borrowed from Latin frons, frond- (“leafy branch”).

Words formed from frond

Words that rhyme with frond

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Questions about frond

What does frond mean?
Frond means the leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.
What is frond in Tamil?
Frond in Tamil is ஓலை, அகலிலை, மட்டை. See Frond meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is frond?
Frond is a noun.
How do you pronounce frond?
Frond is pronounced /fɹɒnd/ (UK).
What is the plural of frond?
The plural of frond is fronds.

Words near frond in the dictionary

  1. fromwards
  2. Fron
  3. fronch room
  4. Fronczak
  5. Fronczaks
  6. frond
  7. frondage
  8. frondages
  9. frondation
  10. fronded
  11. frondelite

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: frond (page history and authors); frond (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); frond (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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