different between frond vs fronded

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frons, frond- (“leafy branch”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f??nd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /f??nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Noun

frond (plural fronds)

1. (botany) The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.
2. Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf.
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 35):

     Scores of coconut-shell fires blazed with their characteristic glaring white flame, throwing grotesque shadows on the brown thatched huts, dancing in fairylike shimmerings among the domes of coconut fronds, casting ghostly reaches of light through the adjacent graveyards, and silhouetting the forms of pareu-clad natives at work cleaning their fish or laying them on the live coals to broil.

Translations

Anagrams

• fnord

Middle English

Noun

frond

1. Alternative form of frend

English

Etymology

From frond +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??nd?d/

Adjective

fronded (comparative more fronded, superlative most fronded)

1. Bearing fronds.
   • 1912, John Muir, The Yosemite, Chapter 5: The Trees of the Valley,

     The branches, outspread in flat plumes and, beautifully fronded, sweep gracefully downward and outward, […] .

   • 1966, Malacological Society of Australia, Malacological Society of Australia, Issues 1-10, page 27,

     On the other hand there is in the author's collection a specimen with single nodules only from 40 fathoms off Wollongong, but more fronded than most shore dwelling forms, […]

   • 2008, Peter Sercombe, Bernard Sellato, Beyond the Green Myth: Borneo's Hunter-Gatherers in the Twenty-First Century, page 60,

     Headaches, as well as the unease consequent upon bad dreams, can be relieved by making a fronded stick with a rudimentary face (butun); the pain, or the inauspiciousness, is transferred to this stick, which is left in the forest, […]