Definitions for frond

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IPA: /frɒnd/

Frond is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in frond (dfnor).

Definitions for frond

noun

  1. an often large, finely divided leaf, especially as applied to the ferns and certain palms.
  2. a leaflike expansion not differentiated into stem and foliage, as in lichens.

Origin of frond

1745-55; Latin frond- (stem of frōns) branch, bough, foliage

Examples for frond

The species are named from variations in the outline of the frond.

The frond is flat, with a distinct midrib, and a non-serrated edge.

Its frond is thin and membranous, with a well-defined midrib.

If a woodlark stirred, he saw the shadow of its wing flit from frond to frond.

The root is covered with woolly fibres, and the frond is regularly forked.

A frond is once-pinnate when the incisions extend to the midvein (Fig. 3).

Keep your glance on a frond of the fern just beyond him, and he will stay.

In the simplest species the frond consists of branched cell-rows.

Ant vat if you do not find your frond zee captain of zee steamer?

There was not a frond of bracken, a blade of grass, that did not bend listeningly.

Word Value for frond
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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