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frond

/frond/US // frɒnd //UK // (frɒnd) //

边缘地带,棕熊,棕发,棕发树

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Botany.

    • : an often large, finely divided leaf, especially as applied to the ferns and certain palms.
    • : a leaflike expansion not differentiated into stem and foliage, as in lichens.

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Examples

  • There, spongey disc-shaped, brown “nest” fronds soaked up this moisture.

  • This suggests a reproductive division of labor between the nest and strap frond types.

  • Remove from the oven, drizzle with more olive oil, if desired, squeeze the remaining orange half over everything, and tear the mint leaves and fennel fronds over the peas.

  • The entire fennel plant is edible, including the bulb, stalk, fronds, “seeds,” blossoms and even its pollen.

  • If you aren’t ready to confess your love for fennel just yet, then I hope I’ve at least convinced you to become fronds.

  • Near the banks, the water is shallow and her palm frond oars propel her.

  • To keep the frond in position it may be useful to put a book on the paper as it is spread out.

  • Suddenly, however, I thought I detected a slight movement in a bracken frond beside the furze.

  • Each frond is composed of slender interwoven fibres with club-shaped filaments passing vertically to the surface.

  • Its frond is tubular, and the spore-clusters are situated on the tips of the branches, surrounded by a whorl of small branchlets.

  • The frond contains a single tube, and is jointed and forked, the joints being usually transparent.