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on 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.

The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning. Evelyn.

A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.

Furnished with fronds. "Fronded palms." Whittier.

Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree. [R.]

To unfold leaves, as plants.

The time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves.

A member of the Fronde.

Producing fronds.

A very small frond, or distinct portion of a compound frond.

Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves.

Frondose. [R.]

A species of fern with fronds (Asplenium Ceterach).

ace from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve. Cowper. The elegant curvature of their fronds. Darwin.

A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.

a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfæmina), growing in many countries; lady fern.

Having numerous openings; irregularly reticulated; as, fenestrate membranes; fenestrate fronds.

r of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.

y which bears the elephant apple. -- Gum butea, a gum yielded by the Indian plants Butea frondosa and B. superba, and used locally in tanning and in precipitating indigo. -- Gum cistus, a plant of the genus Cistus (Cistus ladaniferus), a species of rock rose.-- Gum dragon. See Tragacanth. -- Gum elastic, Elastic gum…

A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil's apron. The fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length. See Illust. of Kelp.