noun. A leaf of a fern.

noun. A large compound leaf of a palm.

noun. A leaflike thallus, as of a seaweed or lichen.

noun. In bot.:

noun. As used by Linnæus, a leaf, especially the leaf of a palm or fern.

noun. Now, specifically, a leaf of a fern or other cryptogam, the thallus of a lichen, or any other leaf-like expansion which includes both stem and foliage, as the disk of Lemna.

noun. In zoology, the foliaceous or leaf-like expansion of certain animal organisms, as of various polyzoans and actinozoans, which resemble plants in the mode of growth of the polypstock.

noun. The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; ; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.

noun. The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.

noun. Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf.

noun. compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad

"Ladies did not disdain those pagan ironed times of the firs; city (called after the ugliest Danadune) when a frond was a friend inneed to carry, as earwigs do their dead, their soil to the earth-ball where indeeth we shall calm decline, our legacy unknown."

foliage  leaf  leafage  

Bond  Durand  Fronde  Gond  abscond  

bud  canopy  clump  creeper  elm  

bine  blade  bough  bract  bracteole