Definitions for frondose

frondose fron·dose

Spelling: [fron-dohs]
IPA: /ˈfrɒn doʊs/

Frondose is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 235 anagrams from letters in frondose (defnoors).

Definitions for frondose

adjective

  1. bearing fronds.
  2. resembling a frond.

Origin of frondose

1715-25; Latin frondōsus abounding in foliage, equivalent to frond- frond + -ōsus -ose1

Examples for frondose

One of the frondose Liverworts, Steetzia, otherwise like a Jungermannia; the spore-case not yet protruded from its sheath.

Massive, frondose; more or less horizontally expanded; bears finger-like processes of varying development on the upper surface.

frondose, frond-bearing; like a frond, or sometimes used for leafy.

Next to the frondose ferns they took the largest part in the composition of the palæolithic fern forests.

There are several species which are related to the frondose polyporus which occur in this country as well as in Europe.

Frondes′cent, springing into leaf; Frondif′erous, bearing or producing fronds; frondose′, covered with fronds.

In the same way as the Ophioglossæ arose out of the frondose forms, the scale ferns arose out of the Ophioglossæ.

In fact we may expect a form reduced to an axis, a few ramenta, a frondose dilatation, and one punctum of reproductive organs.

Word Value for frondose
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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