FROND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does frond mean? 

• FROND (noun)
  The noun FROND has 1 sense:

1. compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad

  Familiarity information: FROND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FROND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("frond" is a kind of...):

foliage; leaf; leafage (the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants)

 Context examples 

These cells line thin papillary fronds on the surface or form tubular structures within the lamina propria.

(Nephrogenic Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of delicate fibrovascular connective tissue fronds covered by a single layer of epithelial cells.

(Choroid Plexus Papilloma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

In the damper hollows the Mauritia palms threw out their graceful drooping fronds.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)