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Definition of frond
1 : a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions
2 : a thallus or thalloid shoot (as of a lichen or seaweed) resembling a leaf
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Flak jackets, hoodies, and t-shirts—with cyborg palm trees, featuring standard fronds but with barbed-wire trunks—captured that intent.
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After the foliage dies back in the fall, cut the stems to the ground and mulch over the roots with a thick cover of evergreen fern fronds.
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Infected palms can be hard to spot because the larvae live inside their host trees; residents should look for dead and drooping fronds, as well as damage to the palm’s crown.
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Remove the fronds from the central, thicker stalks.
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Mild Mix: Spinach, romaine or butter lettuce, watercress, basil leaves, fennel fronds, bok choy.
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Add fennel, chopped fennel fronds, garlic and crushed red pepper.
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Remove dark green stalks, but reserve enough fernlike fronds to make 1/4 cup chopped.
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Late spring is time for the white bells of salal, intermingled with uncurling fronds of new ferns, and one of my favorites: tiny starflowers, with their single pinkish-white, seven-pointed star shining from a cluster of deep green leaves.
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Origin and Etymology of frond
Latin frond-, frons foliage
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: a large leaf (as of a palm or fern) or leaflike structure (as of a seaweed) with many divisions
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