In botany, a term which Linne applies to the peculiar leafing of palms and ferns. He defines it, a kind of stem which has the branch united with the leaf and frequently with the fructification. The term seems to import the union of a leaf and a branch.
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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.
A lopping of trees.
A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.
Fronde
Encyclopedia Britannica
FRONDE, War of the (1648-1652). See France (p, 572) and Condé.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 9, p. 803
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Furnished with fronds.
To unfold leaves, as plants.
In botany, the precise time of the year and month in which each species of plants unfolds its leaves.
1. The time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves.
2. The act of bursting into leaf.
Producing fronds.
Producing fronds.
2. Leafy.
A frondous flower is one which is leafy, one which produces branches charged with both leaves and flowers. Instances of this luxuriance sometimes occur in the rose and anemone.
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