A palm frond can be used for a pretty effective fan if someone else waves it at you. From LearnThat.org.
The bracts at the base of the frond were a prized Maori delicacy. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
In Greek and Latin it means palm frond, that is, something torn off the tree. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: PRONUNCIATION QUIZ.] Reference
This rattan-frond omen appears to be used very rarely. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
A palm frond fell from above and rested on my windshield. From Wordnik.com. [Who Lives on Barriedale Road?] Reference
As buttonholes, backed with a frond of maidenhair, they are charming. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
The main rib or vein of a segment, pinnule, pinna, or frond; a midvein. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Sterile segment of the frond ternately or pinnately divided or compound. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Feather-like; with the divisions of the frond extending fully to the rachis. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Fruiting portion in the middle of the frond; two to four pairs of fertile pinnæ. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
The divisions of the frond, are, I find, not gyrate, but rather cochleariform involate. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Under surface of the whole frond hispidulous with minute, white hairs and stalked glands. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
They are arranged in six groups, the classification being based on the frond differences. From Wordnik.com. [A Mother's List of Books for Children] Reference
Not a frond stirred, neither did the breeze even move the multitudinous folds of Jill's raiment. From Wordnik.com. [Desert Love] Reference
Another way is to cut the midrib in the center at the small end and tear the frond into two pieces. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
So that almost all the scales of the under surface of the lobes of the mature frond, are mere scales. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
The fertile pinnæ have a way of turning their faces upward toward the apex of the frond for more light. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Terry waited, idly stroking the long frond of an air plant that hung in the wide window near where he stood. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
Primary pinnæ in outline like the frond; the secondary, pinnatifid into oblong and obtuse, cut-toothed lobes. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Surrounded by a few villagers, he squatted before his flimsy, frond-roofed hut, his mouth in grotesque motion. From Wordnik.com. [The Weakling] Reference
Then each one stuck his frond upon the bank in a vertical position and went his way, certain that rain would follow. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
Sometimes the prothallus itself buds directly from the frond without spores, for which process the term apóspory is used. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
The frond of Ceterach is very frondose-looking, it has stomata on its under surface, and the cells of the cuticle very sinuate. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
The pulp is washed with sea water through a sieve, made of the fibrous web which protects the young frond of the coco-nut palm. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Of acrogenous leaves, those only are leaves whose attachment is at right angles with the stem; the rest are divisions of a frond. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
The little berry-like structures of the fertile frond represent pinnules, bearing fruit-dots, around which they are closely rolled. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Those growing in warm, sunny places where the fruit-dots when mature incline to cover the whole back of the frond are called "sun forms.". From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
With respect to duration, each frond is analogous to a single seta of a moss, it has definite limits, and is unlike the fronds of certain. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
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