frond

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a large or divided leaf, especially the leaf of a fern, palm, or cycad

   A broad fern frond arched over the stream.

Borrowed from Latin frons, genitive frondis, 'leafy branch or foliage'. English first used it botanically for fern leaves and later for similarly divided leaves such as those of palms.

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