Dictionary

fronded en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈfɹɒndɪd/ (UK)

Etymology

From frond + -ed.

Meanings

1. Bearing fronds.
   • 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, […] 2008, Peter Sercombe, Bernard Sellato, Beyond the Green Myth: Borneo's Hunter-Gatherers in the Twenty-First Century, page 60:
   • Then light and swift through the jungle trees / We swung in our airy flights, / Or breathed in the balms of the fronded palms / In the hush of the moonless nights; 1909, Langdon Smith, Evolution:
   • 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, […]

Forms

Deriveds

multifronded