noun
definition
The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.
definition
Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf.
Examples of frond in a Sentence
The large frond of Cycadites represented in fig.
They consist of a so-called "frond" - a flattened green more or less oval structure which emits branches similar to itself from lateral pockets at or near the base.
The nest is always firmly attached to seaweed, and sometimes suspended from an over-hanging frond.
E, Vertical section of frond of the complicated Siphoneous Green Alga Halimeda.
Professor Nathorst, as the result of a more recent examination of Heer's specimen, found that the segments of the frond are characterized by the presence of two parallel veins instead of a single midrib, with a row of stomata between them; for this type of Cycadean leaf he proposed the generic name Pseudocycas.
The leaves, borne on the regions between the false dichotomies, are those of Anomozamites minor, a type of Cycadean frond originally determined FIG.
Differs from common duckweed in that each frond has many roots.
The first leaves borne on the seedling axis are often scalelike, and these are followed by two or more larger laminae, which foreshadow the pinnae of the adult frond.
In the case of Lyginodendron the Crossotheca occurs in connexion with the vegetative parts of the frond.
The substance of the frond is made up by a single much-branched tube, with interwoven branches.
To use aloe, pinch off the tip of a frond and squeeze out the clear liquid.
Raffia is a palm frond looking string that usually comes in a light brown and can pass for palm fronds.
We then had a look at a small group of False Vampire Bats asleep under a palm frond.
The frond is held on a very long stipe giving the plant quite an open airy appearance.
This is the case in the Fucaceae, and in a very marked degree in the Laminariaceae in question, where the assimilative frond is borne at the end of an extremely long supporting and conducting stipe.
These curious appendages (Aphlebiae), at first regarded as parasitic growths, have been compared with the feathery outgrowths which occur on the rachis in the Cyatheaceous genus Hemitelia, and with the 'anomalous pinnules found in certain species of Gleichenia, at the points of bifurcation of the frond.
The majority of the specimens included in the genus Cladophlebis, the Mesozoic representative of the Palaeozoic Pecopteris type of frond, are known only in a sterile condition, and cannot be assigned to their family position.
They come in a mult-color palm frond print, and they have side pockets with drainage holes.
Finally, in the pinnae of the frond the centrifugal xylem may disappear, the protoxylem being now exarch in position and abutting on the phloem.
One large specimen is figured by Heer from Lower Cretaceous rocks of Greenland, and by the side of the frond is shown a carpel with lateral ovules, as in the female flower of Cycas; but an examination of the type-specimen in the Copenhagen Museum led the present writer to regard this supposed carpel as valueless.
The Cyas type of frond, except as regards the presence of a midrib in each pinna, characterizes the cycads generally, except Bowenia and Stangeria.
Not unlike the runner, though growing in a very different way, are the bud-plants formed on the fronds of several kinds of ferns belonging to the genera Asplenium, Woodwardia, Polystichum, Lastrea, Adiantum, Cystopteris, &c. In some of these (Adiantum caudatusn, Polystichum lepidocaulon) the rachis of the frond is lengthened out much like the string of the strawberry runner, and bears a plant at its apex.