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frondent

UK/ˈfɹɒndənt/US/ˈfɹɑndənt/

frondent adjective: covered with leaves; leafy.

Adjective

frondent (comparative more frondent, superlative most frondent)

  1. (archaic) Covered with leaves; leafy.
    • a frondent tree
    • And near before us is Versailles, New and Old; with that broad frondent Avenue de Versailles between,—stately-frondent, broad, three hundred feet as men reckon, with four Rows of Elms1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VI, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book VII (The Insurrection of Women), page 260

Forms of frondent

comparativemore frondent
superlativemost frondent

Origin of frondent

From Latin frondens, present participle of frondere (“to put forth leaves”). See frond.

Questions about frondent

What does frondent mean?
Frondent means covered with leaves; leafy.
What part of speech is frondent?
Frondent is an adjective.
How do you pronounce frondent?
Frondent is pronounced /ˈfɹɒndənt/ (UK).

Words near frondent in the dictionary

  1. frondages
  2. frondation
  3. fronded
  4. frondelite
  5. frondellite
  6. frondent
  7. frondesce
  8. frondesced
  9. frondescence
  10. frondescences
  11. frondescent

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