frond

UK/fɹɒnd/US/fɹɑnd/

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Other forms: fronds

A frond is the leaf of a fern or a palm. A palm frond, unfurling fronds, fronds of bracken.

It is used where a leaf is large and divided into many parts along a central stem. New fern fronds come up tightly curled and unroll as they grow, which gardeners call a crozier.

Definitions of frond

1nounfrondThe leaf of a fern or a palm.C1
“A single palm frond had blown across the road in the night.”

frond is a leaf.

Where it comes from

Latin
frons — leafy branch
English, today
frond

Borrowed from Latin frons (“leafy branch”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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frond in the wild

Vernation or leafing is the formation of new leaves or fronds.
Vernation
In both common usage and botanical nomenclature, the leaves of ferns are referred to as fronds and some botanists restrict the term to this group.
Frond
Like all leaves, fronds usually have a stalk connecting them to the main stem.
Frond
The koru is a spiral shape evoking a newly unfurling frond from a silver fern frond.
Koru
The others are the lulav (date palm frond), aravah (willow), and etrog (citron).
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