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How to use frond in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun

Frond means the leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf. Example: “The trunk is unbranched, often much shortened, and bears a crown of feathery or pinnate fronds.”

Examples of frond by meaning

nounThe leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.

  • 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

More sentences with frond

  • The trunk is unbranched, often much shortened, and bears a crown of feathery or pinnate fronds.From the entry pinnate
  • The pots are formed by the coiling method and bonfired using palm fronds, grass and sometimes dung.2000, Moira Vincentelli, “Running the Business”, in Women and Ceramics: Gendered Vessels, Manchester; New York, N.Y.: Manchester…. From the entry bonfire
  • How they cast their spells upon, the fronds that thereup float, the bookstaffs branchings!1976, Poétique, page 217. From the entry bookstaff
  • Cibotium Barometz frond resembles the Cibotium Scheidei but the growth is different as well as the color.1949, The Begonian: […], Long Beach, Calif.: American Begonia Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 265, column 2. From the entry barometz
  • And how they cast their spells upon, the fronds that thereup float, the bookstaff branchings!1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, page 571. From the entry thereup
  • For the scare line, coconut fronds are wound round a rope which is set around a large area to be fished.2008, Otto Gabriel, Klaus Lange, Erdmann Dahm, Fish Catching Methods of the World, →ISBN, page 306. From the entry scare line
  • Undertoning the howling siren I was aware of a distant swish, like that of a hurricane’s forerunning wind through palm fronds.1951 January, Arthur Leo Zagat, chapter 7, in Fantastic Novels Magazine. From the entry undertone
  • The stipes or bare portion of the frond is, as a rule, about the same length as the leafy portion.1917, S. Leonard Bastin, How to Know the Ferns, London: Methuen & Co. From the entry stipe
  • Thriving banana palms sculled the air with their large paddlelike fronds, as if to row the building backward in time to a more serene era.2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 34. From the entry paddlelike
  • Place 2 baguette toast slices in each of 4 soup plates, spoon in bourride and top with another slice of toast and minced fennel fronds.2009 March 4, Florence Fabricant, “Scallop Bourride”, in New York Times. From the entry bourride
  • In it, ghostly hands appear on top of the image of an aloe plant, with fingers and fronds jumbled together, all outstretched and reaching.1995 October 13, Charles Hagen, “Photography Review”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Aug 2011. From the entry double exposure
  • The trade wind blows refreshingly cool across the Point, clearing it of mosquitoes and singing an eternal psalm in the fronds of the coconut palms.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 57. From the entry refreshingly

Meaning of frond

  1. noun The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.
  2. noun Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf.

Full definition of frond

Questions about frond in a sentence

How do you use frond in a sentence?
Frond is used as a noun. For example: “The trunk is unbranched, often much shortened, and bears a crown of feathery or pinnate fronds.”
What is a short sentence with frond?
“How they cast their spells upon, the fronds that thereup float, the bookstaffs branchings!”
What does frond mean?
Frond means the leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.

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