How To Use Frond In A Sentence
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Frondeur, young Darpent, whom our brother had the folly to introduce into the family. '
Stray Pearls
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The stroma of the papillary fronds consisted of loose fibrous tissue with abundant, thin-walled, congested blood vessels.
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'Driven To Tears' is the Latin poem by Ausonius ( "Cum glaucus opaco/respondet colli fluvius, frondere videntur/fluminei latices et palmite consitus anmis ...").
Zenyatta Mondatta
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Trim and finely slice a bulb of fennel, keeping any fronds.
Times, Sunday Times
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B. majusculum, stricEe erectum, frondibus pin - natis, pinnis longo - lanceolatis acutis, basi minime dilatatis, argute rigideque serrulatis.
Species plantarum : exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas
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When the man found that we were going to stay all night he bestirred himself, dragged some of the things to one side and put down a shake-down of pulu (the silky covering of the fronds of one species of tree-fern), with a sheet over it, and a gay quilt of orange and red cotton.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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Diana dismissed it with contempt, as the shaft of a _frondeur_ discredited by both parties.
The Testing of Diana Mallory
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O longum memoranda dies! quae mente reporto gaudia, quam lassos per tot miracula uisus! ingenium quam mite solo! quae forma beatis15 ante manus artemque locis! non largius usquam indulsit natura sibi. nemora alta citatis incubuere uadis; fallax responsat imago frondibus, et longas eadem fugit umbra per undas. ipse Anien (miranda fides) infraque superque20 spumeus hic tumidam rabiem saxosaque ponit murmura, ceu placidi ueritus turbare Vopisci
A Villa at Tibur
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His Eminence accused Eugène of being a frondeur; M. de Canaples, whose politics had grown sadly rusted in the country, asked me the meaning of the word.
The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes
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This fossil has been reconstructed with a hypothetical stalk anchored in the substrate, as if supporting a frondose body in a reclined position.
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Naturally enough the greater number are rock ferns -- pellaea, cheilanthes, polypodium, adiantum, woodsia, cryptogramma, etc., with small tufted fronds, lining cool glens and fringing the seams of the cliffs.
The Yosemite
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The branches seem to be laid out flat, like fern fronds, while it is the colouring that gives the foliage variety of appearance and depth.
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We were in the middle of a broad and now sluggish river the banks of which were lined by giant, arboraceous ferns, raising their mighty fronds fifty, one hundred, two hundred feet into the quiet air.
The Land That Time Forgot
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On the other hand, the villi on that part of the chorion which is in contact with the decidua placentalis increase greatly in size and complexity, and hence this part is named the chorion frondosum (Fig. 28).
I. Embryology. 11. Development of the Fetal Membranes and Placenta
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The palm fronds can be made to give shelter.
Times, Sunday Times
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The anemone fish shelters within the waving fronds of the anemone host, enticing other small fishes into the anemone's trap.
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This hardy evergreen has glossy, leathery fronds and gradually will reach 3 feet or more in height and width.
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Its curiously and irregularly pinnate fronds are borne on slender stalks, terete toward the base, and covered with reddish brown, downy scales, instead of being produced loosely, as in most other Nephrolepises; these are densily crowded, and the outcome of closely clustered crowns.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884
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At this stage it is more or less spherical and covered with villi (frond-like protrusions); these provide a large surface area for exchange of gases, nutrients, water and waste with the maternal blood.
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His decision horrified former frondeurs like Jean Le Boindre, who wrote that as ‘the French had changed their laws and their monarchy, they might as well change their name’.
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The statuesque theme continues in the vegetable garden where there are great fronds of fennel and huge clumps of Cynara Scolymus - globe artichoke, their purple thistle heads abuzz with bees.
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At the end of the wall we inadvertently disturbed a hawksbill turtle resting among the fronds of a soft coral.
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The fronds were stiffened by ice and arched over the trickle like a tunnel of swords at a wedding.
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Yes, yonder, Mesdames, where our straight frondent Avenue, joined, as you note, by Two frondent brother Avenues from this hand and from that, spreads out into Place Royale and Palace Forecourt; yonder is the
The French Revolution
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It has tougher, more leathery fronds than most other ferns.
Times, Sunday Times
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These are much more restricted in their distribution, possibly because they did not have as much time to disperse as the fronds and medusoids, but probably also because of environmental restrictions on their range.
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When the developing, fertilized egg at the ‘blastocyst’ stage becomes implanted in the lining of the uterus, it develops ‘villi’ - fine, frond-like cellular projections from its outermost layer, the trophoblast.
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I have done almost no birding, except yesterday when I saw a Hooded Butcherbird sitting on a coconut frond, tilting back its head and ruffling its pied plumage as it whistled its loud, musical song.
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Forms a spreading mass of deep green leathery fronds.
Winter Garden Glory
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Have to make do with quick dip and lazy lie under the fronds.
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It may thus be judged whether, as some writers have asserted without the slightest knowledge of the facts, the Fronde was a great and generous cause which failed of obtaining success.
Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2)
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Once the fronds have given off their spores, they die and can be cut back.
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If using baby fennel, simply trim away any tough outer leaves and slice off the bottom and top of the fronds.
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Fallen leaves are swept into heaps, only to be blown away again and large palm fronds and tree branches scatter the tarmac.
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There was a wedding today in the village: all these women in full African dresses, waving palm fronds as they marched from the church to the house for the party ….
Archive 2005-07-01
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Fronds oblong-lanceolate, five to twelve inches long, twice pinnate, the pinnæ often pinnatifid or cut-toothed, ovate-lanceolate, decurrent on the winged rachis.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
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Common medusoids and fronds, however, do not generally show this restriction.
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There was room beneath the fronds to stand with your hands raised and still not touch the nubby spores on their underbellies.
COLDHEART CANYON
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Individual fronds can be identified along with signs of its original colour and traces of blood.
Times, Sunday Times
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Beneath the fronded chemosensor tendrils, eyes were slanted and scarlet-hued.
The Game Of Empire
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A majestic fern that looks fabulous in spring when its fresh green fronds appear.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was immediately struck with the resemblance of those organs, called ramenta, to what are fairly assumed to be the male bodies, in certain other families of the same grand division; and I at once came to the conclusion, that the barren fronds, were barren, because almost destitute of these ramenta; and that as these ramenta were confined to the base of the stalk, that is, to the part below its first ramification, an obvious necessity existed for the peculiar nature of the vernation.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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Now they look rather battered, but many of the fronds will stay green throughout the winter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lepidoteris fronds typically have so-called intercalary pinnules along the rachis between the primary pinnae, and are covered with the characteristic blisters mentioned above.
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What seemed unusual, in this landscape of tropical mountains, was the combination of pine trees, cacti and palm fronds.
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Truculent and self-confident as he was, he never acted against the royal authority in such a manner as to oblige the king to strike him down in secret; and it is difficult to believe that Louis XIV, peaceably seated on his throne, with all the enemies of his minority under his feet, should have revenged himself on the duke as an old Frondeur.
Celebrated Crimes (Complete)
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So the rocks were uncovered now, which seldom tasted the air, and the stems of the great oarweed, or tangle, which grew from them, were bent into a half-circle by the weight of their broad leathery fronds, as, no longer buoyed up by the sea, they lay trailing on the sands.
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These three groups will be found to include most of the forms under which frondescence of the clover blossoms occurs, but there are, of course, intermediate forms not readily to be grouped under either of the above heads.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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There were fresh shrimp, mussels, and codfish in the mix, and little fronds of carrot and fennel, all of which were nicely fried to a golden, tempura-like crispness.
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Between each insurge of the waves, they could still see Greenstalk's fronds.
A Fire Upon the Deep
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Inside a stunning 30-inch-diameter glass globe, shrimp paddle between fronds of algae.
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But if we could have store of the _philyrea folio leviter serrato_ (of which I have rais’d some very fine plants from the seeds) we might fear no weather, and the verdure is incomparable, and all of them tonsile, fit for cradle-work and _umbracula frondium_: a decoction of the
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
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The long, smooth-sided fronds are glossier still after rainfall.
Times, Sunday Times
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She brushed a frond aside to touch the bottom of the glass.
X, Chapter 2: Min
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Four hundred tons of white beach sand has been spread across the shore, with palm fronds and bright sunshades offering a cool shelter to the revellers.
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Each bright strap-shaped frond stands up strongly, supported by a stiff, raised midrib, all the same brilliant green.
Times, Sunday Times
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The typical two-room house is built of cob (earth mixed with rice straw), coconut fronds, or raffia.
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With many generations to come, the name of César de St. Auban must perforce be familiar as that of one of the greatest roysterers and most courtly libertines of the early days of Louis XIV., as well as that of a rabid anti-cardinalist and frondeur, and one of the earliest of that new cabal of nobility known as the petits-maîtres, whose leader the Prince de Condé was destined to become a few years later.
The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes
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Another team were being lashed by bracken fronds and splashed with water as they tried to cross the beck while blinded by blackened goggles.
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The church was decorated inside and out with fresh flowers, paper roses, palm fronds and greenery from the forest.
Legend of the Virgin of Talpa
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The petiole or stipe is the stalk at the base of the frond, before the first pinna ‘branches’ from the rachis.
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I cannot, however, think that botanical evidence of such a nature is sufficient to warrant a satisfactory reference of these Indian coal-fields to the same epoch as those of England or of Australia; in the first place the outlines of the fronds of ferns and their nervation are frail characters if employed alone for the determination of existing genera, and much more so of fossil fragments: in the second place recent ferns are so widely distributed, that an inspection of the majority affords little clue to the region or locality they come from: and in the third place, considering the wide difference in latitude and longitude of
Himalayan Journals — Complete
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The skull-caps of plaited and blackened palm leaf, though common in the interior, are here rare; an imitation is produced by tressing the hair longitudinally from occiput to sinciput, making the head a system of ridges, divided by scalp-lines, and a fan-shaped tuft of scarlet-stained palm frond surmounts the poll.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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The lower pinnæ pinnately parted into three to five divisions, those of the fertile fronds oblong or linear-oblong; those of the sterile, obovate or ovate, crenulate, decurrent at the base.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
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[245] Engelmann makes use of the word frondescence in the same cases.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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They will be often be observed eating mussels from both reef and wreckage and also seem to favour winkles, which they pick delicately from kelp fronds before spitting out the remains of the shell.
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Oblong, lance-shaped pinnatisect bright green fronds rise vaselike from a central trunk and maintain their verticality, making for a distinctively architectural form.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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You may pick a sprig of rosemary or thyme, or a few fronds of parsley or dill, but you'll pick an armload of basil.
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They gave him his choice of three names, l'Ennuyé, le Frondeur, or le Blasé.
Tales and Novels — Volume 10
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All of these foliage forms are planate pinnate fronds, frequently with open venation.
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The statue of Etienne Marcel at the City Hall in Paris recalls one of the many instances of the resistance of the city to corrupt administration and it was under one of the most autocratic and greatest of monarchs, Louis XIV, that the Parisian earned the distinctive epithet of 'frondeur' to describe his quickness to resent any encroachment on the part of authority upon his civil rights and liberties.
A Royalist Fiasco
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You may pick a sprig of rosemary or thyme, or a few fronds of parsley or dill, but you'll pick an armload of basil.
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On the whole, taking in consideration cases of partial frondescence, as well as those in which most of the parts of the flower are affected, phyllody would seem to be most common in the petals and carpels, least so in the case of the stamens and sepals.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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By then at the end of his active career as a lover, intriguer at the court of the regency of Louis XIV, and soldier who had thrice chosen the wrong side in the civil wars known as the Fronde, La Rochefoucauld clearly exceeded all others at this game.
Puncturing Our Pretensions
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Fronds thick and leathery, oblong-lanceolate from an auricled, heart-shaped base, ten to twenty inches long and one to two inches wide.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
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The other two dogs chased each other around the frond yard, yipping and rolling.
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Trim the fennel and slice as thinly as possible, keeping any fronds.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the yard, a black man pushed a wheelbarrow over low-cut grass, picked up fallen palm fronds and stacked them high.
Miracles, Inc.
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I behold the _corozo_ -- of the same genus with the _palma real_ -- its light feathery frondage streaming outwards and bending downwards, as if to protect from the hot sun the globe-shaped nuts that hang in grape-like clusters beneath.
The Rifle Rangers
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The brake fern is dead and withered; the tip of each frond curled over downwards by the frost, but it forms a brown background to the dull green furze which is alight here and there with scattered blossom, by contrast so brilliantly yellow as to seem like flame.
Hodge and His Masters
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The generic appellations of the several species of Ferns are derived thus: _Aspidium_, from _aspis_, a shield, because the spores are enclosed in bosses; _Pteris_, from _pteerux_, a wing, having doubly pinnate fronds; or from _pteron_, a feather, having feathery fronds;
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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Sometimes the prothallus itself buds directly from the frond without spores, for which process the term apóspory is used.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
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I looked and could see nothing at all but dried, brown leaves with a few delicate fern fronds thrusting through them.
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Its coppery brown fronds turn a golden yellow in the autumn.
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The common honeysuckle, _Lonicera Periclymenum_, is one of these, and it is noticeable in this plant that the calyx remains unaffected -- a circumstance which Morren says shows the distinctness of virescence from frondescence; for, in this instance, we have the most foliaceous portion of the flower remaining unchanged, while the corolla and other organs, usually less leaf-like in their nature, assume a green colour; but this may rather be attributed to the axial nature of the so-called adherent calyx.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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Morren [374] judiciously proposed to keep these two conditions separate, calling the one virescence, the other frondescence (see p. 241).
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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In dry weather, rusty woodsia fronds dry out and curl up, but they can turn green again after a rain.
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A triangular tray of _bayug_ or of _ilang-ilang_ wood decorated with palm fronds is made and suspended from the rafters of the house.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
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Asplenium scolopendrium: hart's tongue fern with strap-shaped fronds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mazarin's numerous nieces, and the opera, that new importation from Italy, which the Cardinal was bringing into fashion; while in the remote past of half a dozen years back the Fronde was the only interesting subject, and even that was worn threadbare; the adventures of the Duchess, the conduct of the Prince in prison, the intrigues of Cardinal and Queen, Mademoiselle, yellow-haired Beaufort, duels of five against five -- all -- all these were ancient history as compared with young Louis and his passion for Marie de
London Pride Or When the World Was Younger
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Entering her west London home is like stepping into a seasonal greenhouse, with tables heaped with palm fronds and twinkling candles.
Times, Sunday Times
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In pitting against himself those who had so powerfully succoured him in his misfortune, Condé ought at least to have drawn closer to the Court and had a serious understanding with the Queen; but he tergiversated, and at the end of some months of that wavering policy, he found himself standing unmasked between the Court and the Fronde, both equally discontented with him, repeating and exaggerating the blunder committed by Mazarin.
Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2)
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That idea, indeed, makes me forget that poor fellow Broussel altogether; and I now fail to recognize in you the whining complaints of that old Frondeur.
The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After"
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Dipteris Horsfieldii and Matonia pectinata, which bear large spreading palmate fronds on slender stems six or eight feet high.
The Malay Archipelago
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This brilliant young officer, by nature somewhat a _frondeur_, was finally guilty of expressions so disrespectful as to lead to his removal shortly before that of Paoli.
William Pitt and the Great War
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There were large palm fronds strung around the village to protect it from evil and to cleanse any evil person who entered the village.
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On the whole, taking in consideration cases of partial frondescence, as well as those in which most of the parts of the flower are affected, phyllody would seem to be most common in the petals and carpels, least so in the case of the stamens and sepals.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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The frond of Ceterach is very frondose-looking, it has stomata on its under surface, and the cells of the cuticle very sinuate.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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German aristocracy who refuse to go to court, and are accordingly called by the name Fronde, first given to the opponents of Cardinal
William of Germany
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At daybreak yesterday we were steaming up a branch of the great Me-kong river in Cochin China, a muddy stream, densely fringed by the nipah palm, whose dark green fronds, ten and twelve feet long, look as if they grew out of the ground, so dumpy is its stem.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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The fronds can reach five metres long in their native conditions - mine are about two metres.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fronds eight to eighteen inches long, lanceolate-oblong, tripinnate.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
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Stepping up to the dominee, I got a liberal sprinkling with the aid of a palm frond.
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An old, Black man, a young spotted giraffe, and even a horny spider monkey on the loose in the palm tree fronds canopying Hollywood.
Archive 2008-06-01
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They continued their journey under the frondescence of the mountain forests.
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Among _Leguminosæ_ a partial leafy condition (frondescence), or a more complete degree of the same change, (chloranthy) is not infrequent, particularly in _Trifolium repens_.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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The old walls of Figeac are likewise tapestried with pellitory and ivy-linaria, with here and there a fern pushing its deep-green frond farther into the shadow, or an orpine sedum lifting its head of purple flowers into the sunshine that changes it to a flame.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
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Once unfurled, the fronds produce a more bitter, unappetizing flavor.
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It's leaves are deeply cut, but many stems make up a single frond on this plant.
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A little later in the year, when the ferns are uncurling their long fronds, the troops of blue and white violets will come dancing down to the edge of the stream, and creep venturously out to the very end of that long, moss-covered log in the water.
Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
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** Nunc frondent fylvs nunc formoiiffimus annus.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical
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The apical cell and basal cell act as the ancestor cells of frond and rhizoid .
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Sometimes the prothallus itself buds directly from the frond without spores, for which process the term apóspory is used.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
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The Fronde was the last campaign of the aristocracy.
History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814
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Discovered in the southeastern U.S. by university researchers, this beautiful fern has a unique ability to soak up arsenic from the ground into its fronds, which may be clipped and disposed of safely.
Archive 2006-03-01
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There were lots of details I'd never noticed before, like the red squirrelfish lurking in the shadows, the green fronds and algae growing in the little patches of light around the portholes, and even a single rubber boot, apparently in excellent condition, lying where someone must have kicked it off.
The Wind from The Sun
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The sun was reaching into the shady side, and giving the fronds of the garden ferns an afternoon treat.
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Moved by what he called "idealized illustrations of Hawaii from the '50s, postcards and Hawaiian shirts," Parisian Joseph Altuzarra sent digital tropical prints down his spring runway against a backdrop of live palm-frond foliage, while Suno, a house that usually sets its compass to Africa where many of its batik fabrics are made, was also taken with alohawear.
Endless Summer
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All round us, the lilies, lotuses, white trailing fronds of aquatic plants are opening up their own restaurants to a buzz of water beetles and insects.
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T. frondibus triplicato-pinnatis, pinnuHs pinna - tifidis decurrentibus, laciniis linearibus infe - rioribu& bifidis, isuperioribus obtusis emargi - natis, rachi primaria tereti, secundaria alata.
Species plantarum : exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas
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It is a palm-frond filled haven lined with cool slate and oak panelled walls with traditional wooden slatted fans circulating cool air.
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These were the ‘philosophical circle’ and the ‘political circle,’ amicably decried by each other as ‘German sentimentalists’ and ‘French frondeurs.’
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Fronds pale green, one to six feet high; sterile part bipinnate, each pinna having numerous pairs of lance-oblong, serrulate pinnules alternate along the midrib.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
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Plants exhibit as much diversity in the warmth and length of time necessary to mature their fruit as in their frondescence and flowering.
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P. fronde quinquepinnatilida siibglabra mem - branacea, pinnulis acutis argute serratis, ra - chibus ramulorum marginatis.
Species plantarum : exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas
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In some of the dampest ravines tree-ferns flourished in an extraordinary manner; I saw one which must have been at least twenty feet high to the base of the fronds, and was in girth exactly six feet.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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Fronds eight to twelve inches high, lanceolate, bipinnatifid, finely glandular-puberulent.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
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You can pick out a range of subtle colours in the vegetation: the russet fronds of bracken, the fresh green stems of bilberry and the purple twigs of birch.
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Frondel thus committed himself to a career in descriptive mineralogy.
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This attractive liverwort has dissected edges to its fronds, giving the appearance of small petals.
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Yet the caress of his meaning was delicate as the first green fronds of spring.
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Quid tibi odorato referam fudantia ligno Balfamaque, et baccas femper frondentis acanthi?
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera
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With a few sips you can see the aquamarine waters, feel the gentle breeze, and start swaying like a palm frond.
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All but the moonworts and grape ferns have fronds that, in the bud stage, are tightly coiled into the familiar fern crozier that is usually protected by a covering of scales or hairs.
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Mazarin seemed to divine the thoughts of the _Frondeur_, for he smiled upon him with triumph, and immediately, -- "Sire," said he to the king,
The Vicomte De Bragelonne
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People in wellingtons were out walking their dogs and observing the aftermath of the drama: a park bench shrouded in dark fronds of river weed, a flooded walkway, the ‘trash’ line where the river had reached its highest point.
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Pink shrimps and flatfish abound, and brightly coloured juvenile lumpsuckers stick to the kelp fronds.
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It is still young and has not begun to push up a trunk but the fronds are 7ft long already.
Times, Sunday Times
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Trim the long stems from the fennel, keeping any fronds, then core and slice the remainder very thinly.
The Sun
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He was splicing the two pieces together with a strip of the brown cloth-like stuff which is wrapped round the stalks of the cocoa-palm fronds.
The Blue Lagoon: a romance
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Description: This is an aquatic moss, with irregular branched stems or fronds covered with two rows of spongy leaves.
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Laike nippee hanz wen u pet him, an laz naite he reelee wanned to restle and uze teef wen ai tuk bak n frond lehgs on une saide in mai hand an move dem in an out, up n daun, whaile he lying in bed.
Thermometer… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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He spun on his heel and potted metallized fronds shimmered in his wake of air.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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Course, with high-frondent Avenues, pitchy dockyards, almond and olive groves, orange trees on house-tops, and white glittering bastides that crown the hills, are all behind them.
The French Revolution
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Each frond grows from a specialized stem called a rhizome which grows sideways at the surface or underground.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
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We moved cautiously along the rambling hothouse path, peeking over umber birds of paradise and split palm fronds and under deep flowering trees nearly impossible to imagine in the arid climate just outside the glass.
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With Ian massaging his arm, John collecting handfuls of stones to throw at the snake and Tim stripping the leaflets from a frond of bracken, they made their way through the undergrowth to the small pond.
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Even seabirds that dive into the jungle of wavy fronds must now look for food elsewhere.
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This was the origin of the party called the Fronde, because the speakers launched their speeches at one another as boys fling stones from a sling (fronde) in the streets.
Stray Pearls
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A witness said the security forces arrived in the morning with armor-plated vehicles and shot at the women, who were waving palm fronds in protest against Ivory Coast's embattled president, Laurent Gbagbo.
Female Marchers Killed in Ivory Coast
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The fern most prized by the Maori was Asplenium bulbiferum, the hen and chicken fern, so called because of its habit of producing new plants on the old fronds.
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Keep any wispy fronds to one side.
Times, Sunday Times
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A. frondibus pinnatis, pinnis subrotundis crena - tis basi tnincatis.liuds. angl.
Species plantarum : exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas
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That's Agent Dry Mouth with his palm frond: Tarzan's gorilla housemaid, making the jungle cosy and domestic.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 22: Rerun Island: Russell Blows It, Mansweater Sucks It, and Big Mouth Stamps It.
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A. frondibus pinnatis, pinnis subrotundis crena - tis.
Species plantarum : exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas
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Humans are tossed from scene to scene like fronds of seaweed.
Times, Sunday Times
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This particular type of palm frond, or lulav, is one of four species of flora that Jews ritualize in their observance of the harvest festival.
Danny Groner: The High Price Of Sukkot
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Fronds one to three feet high, scattered along a creeping rootstock, broadly triangular, deeply pinnatifid, with segments sinuately lobed or nearly entire.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
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It was not until Sirius touched the first of the western palm fronds that he had sunk back to something near his former depth.
The Catalans
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She heard some rustling, and glanced out the window at the palm tree waving its fronds in the wind.
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The languorously limbed trees droop into the water, often shedding their prodigious fronds, providing a sheltered habitat for fish.
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The sun is shining, the birds are twittering, palm fronds are waving lazily in the breeze and waves are lapping the shoreline.
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Bright green metallic fronds, in the shape of palm trees, still branch out from their stands.
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The contraction and imperfect development of the fronds of some varieties of ferns, hence called depauperated, may receive passing notice, as also the cases in which the sori or clusters of spore cases are denuded of their usual covering, owing to the abortion or imperfect development of the indusium, as in what are termed exindusiate varieties. [
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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Gigantic vegetables of the most different families intermix their branches; five-leaved bignonias grow by the side of bonduc-trees; cassias shed their yellow blossoms upon the rich fronds of arborescent ferns; myrtles and eugenias, with their thousand arms, contrast with the elegant simplicity of palms; and among the airy foliage of the mimosa the ceropia elevates its giant leaves and heavy candelabra-shaped branches.
We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys
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These pools were generally fringed with sea-weed, great greenish-brown fronds in one place, dark streaks of laver in another, and lower down the bottom would be all pink with the fine corallite, while all about the sea-anemones would dot every crack and hole, like round knobs of dark red jelly, where the water had left them high and dry, spread out like painted daisy flowers, where they were down in the pool.
Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore
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As with ramose colonies, frondose forms were weakened when Sanctum laurentiensis mined out large chambers.
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The fronds of dabberlocks are often eroded by the savage battering they take from storms.
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Through the sea of green, lofty tree-ferns thrust their great delicate fronds, and the lehua flaunted its scarlet blossoms.
Chapter 8
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Ses ennemis, -- et son esprit frondeur lui en avait créé beaucoup à la cour, -- se plaisaient, pour le mortifier, à rappeler à tout propos son humble origine.
French Conversation and Composition
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Then I saw a clapboard shack in the gloom, banana fronds bending over the tin roof, a bright red Coca-Cola machine sweating under the porte cochere, a deck built on pilings over the water, a small barbecue pit smoking greasily in the breeze.
The Glass Rainbow
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To understand these diagrams it is important to keep in mind that the duckweed plants consists of a cluster of fronds descended from a single mother frond.
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Typically, the fronds develop from croziers or fiddle heads that develop into a single plane.
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The tiny fronds of tender green when beech buds first open are an annual delight.
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Around the trunk of this tree were tied leaves and fronds, and - a pile of little pots and dishes of meat were laid out on what looked like a kind of altar.
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Individual fronds can be identified along with signs of its original colour and traces of blood.
Times, Sunday Times
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Between Bogota and Honda, after Villeta, you get sugar cane regions: the slopes covered with them, the long fronds spread like fans; the roadside shacks that sell panela (brown sugar in cakes) in all shapes and derivations; and perhaps because of the abundant water, a thriving truck-washing industry.
Honda Honda, Faster Faster « Unknowing
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On the outside edge, starting about a foot from the cut end, notch the frond until you get all the way across.
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By then at the end of his active career as a lover, intriguer at the court of the regency of Louis XIV, and soldier who had thrice chosen the wrong side in the civil wars known as the Fronde, La Rochefoucauld clearly exceeded all others at this game.
Puncturing Our Pretensions
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A typical drink is palm wine, fermented sap tapped from coconut palm fronds.
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Make sure that you protect tender perennials with a mulch of some kind... compost, chopped dead stems and fern fronds or sand.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ladies did not disdain those pagan ironed times of the firs; city (called after the ugliest Danadune) when a frond was a friend inneed to carry, as earwigs do their dead, their soil to the earth-ball where indeeth we shall calm decline, our legacy unknown.
Finnegans Wake
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Among _Umbelliferæ_ affected with frondescence of the pistil a similar increase in the number of ovules takes place.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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So the rocks were uncovered now, which seldom tasted the air, and the stems of the great oarweed, or tangle, which grew from them, were bent into a half-circle by the weight of their broad leathery fronds, as, no longer buoyed up by the sea, they lay trailing on the sands.
Parables From Nature
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And yet, _Monsieur le Frondeur_," said Mazarin, gayly, "the affair which you have taken in charge must, from the king --
The Vicomte De Bragelonne
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A more highly developed form of the typical plant, the lower pinnæ being often very broad, and the fronds tripinnate.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
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Flocks of terns and cormorants fished offshore, while fronds of kelp writhed in the surf like the flailing arms of sea monsters.
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Using palm fronds braided into long strips that are then sewn together, the island women make hats, baskets, purses, and other items, often decorating them with raffia paper and seashells.
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Mites damage ferns by puncturing the edges of fern fronds with their tube-like stylets and other mouthparts, sucking up the nutritious contents of frond cells.
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I had hunted buffaloes with the Pawnees of the Platte, and ostriches upon the pampas of the Plata: to-day, shivering in the hut of an Esquimaux -- a month after, taking my _siesta_ in an aery couch under the gossamer frondage of the corozo palm.
The Rifle Rangers
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I got sand and covered the bottom; I found two jagged stones and leaned them against each other on the sand; I gathered fronds of ulva latissima; I persuaded a boatman to bring me a bucket of salt-water from beyond the line of breakers, and I poured it carefully into the jar.
Hawthorne and His Circle
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Polypodium {iiudum) frondibus bipinnatis, fo - liolis pinnatis, pinnis rhombeis inciso-crena - tis, stipite scabro nudo.
Species plantarum : exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas
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Secundum moenia locus erat frondosis populis opacus, vitibusque sponte natis, tenuis prope aqua defluebat, placide murmurans, ubi sedile et domus Democriti conspiciebatur.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Here over thirteen hundred footprints of the plant-eating apatosaurus a.k.a. brontosaurus and the carnivorous three-toed allosaurus, ripple marks, a few clams, a palm frond and some horsetails, fish bones, ooids have all solidified into solid rock.
Bird Cloud
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The half-basket guard is of gilded, cast copper alloy, with branches having leafy and scrolled terminals, and the mainplate is cut on the inside face with crossed fronds and a shield.
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With their long stalks, they look like the fronds of the maidenhair fern.
Times, Sunday Times
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The thatched roofs are made out of palm fronds, and the walls out of bamboo or cane.
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Inside was a wainscoted rough-raftered taproom, fronds strewn on its clay floor, dimly lit by sconced candles and the flames on the hearth.
Hokas Pokas
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The loss was indeed serious; for the young orator was far more than a _frondeur_.
William Pitt and the Great War
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Chloranthy, then, is a more complete form of frondescence.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants