different between fronted vs fronded

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??nt?d/

Verb

fronted

1. simple past tense and past participle of front

Adjective

fronted (comparative more fronted, superlative most fronted)

1. Formed with a front; drawn up in line.

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, […]