Dictionary

frond en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /fɹɑnd/ (US)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /fɹɒnd/ (UK)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.
   • By the bank, fifty yards below Elm Island, stood the Master, looking into water six inches deep. A fern frond, knocked off the bank upstream, came down turning like a little green dragon in the clear water. 1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:
2. Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf.
   • 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. 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 35:
   • palm frond

Forms

Deriveds

frondous · frondlet · frondiform · frondless · fronded · frondlike · frondage · frondiferous · frondy

Translations (38)

haw hā (leaf or object resembling a fern leaf) · cmn 植物体 (leaf of a fern) · ca fronda (leaf of a fern) · gd geug-dhuilleagach (leaf of a fern) · cs vějířovitý list (leaf of a fern) · es fronda (leaf of a fern) · pt fronde (leaf of a fern) · de Farnwedel (leaf of a fern) · fi saniaisen lehti (leaf or object resembling a fern leaf) · pl liść paproci (leaf of a fern) · id ental (leaf of a fern) · it fronda (leaf of a fern) · ru лист па́поротника (leaf of a fern) · ru ва́йя (leaf of a fern) · eo frondo (leaf of a fern) · kk вайя (leaf of a fern) · de Wedel (leaf of a fern) · mi rauhuru (leaf of a fern) · mi whā (leaf or object resembling a fern leaf) · es fronde (leaf of a fern) · gl fronde (leaf of a fern) · mi tētē (leaf of a fern) · de Palmwedel (leaf or object resembling a fern leaf) · tl dakdahon (leaf of a fern) · uk вайя (leaf of a fern) · de Farnkrautwedel (leaf of a fern) · de Wedel (leaf or object resembling a fern leaf) · ht fwonn (leaf of a fern) · fi saniaisen lehti (leaf of a fern) · fa برگشاخه (leaf of a fern) · fi lehti (leaf or object resembling a fern leaf) · mr विपर्ण (leaf of a fern) · bg съставен лист (leaf of a fern) · mi tētēkura (leaf of a fern) · nl varenblad (leaf of a fern) · fr fronde (leaf of a fern) · pl liść ozdobny (leaf or object resembling a fern leaf) · mi nīkau (leaf of a fern)