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[frond] / frɒnd /


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A decade later, now a professional camera operator, he found himself in a sunny field in Greenford, filming close up shots of Sir David releasing harvest mice on to a grass frond.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026

We gather to prepare ourselves to bid a frond farewell to Los Angeles’ palm trees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025

This means each frond is a major investment of resources that the plant repurposes after the leaf dies.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 29, 2024

I didn’t see it, but somebody told me Jim Cantore did get hit with a palm frond during part of his coverage.

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2022

Crabs rush from frond to frond of the waving algae.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

At Rosewood’s three hotels located throughout New Zealand, the chefs honor this ethically sourced ethos, working with local purveyors and farmers to source indigenous ingredients like beach spinach, fern fronds and abalone.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026

At one point father and baby ate grass together, the big grass fronds flickering around their heads as they chomped.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

It looks like charcoal, but the black briquettes are actually made from plant waste: millet and sesame stalks, palm fronds and cobs.

From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026

Mourners have been carrying branches and palm fronds, a symbol of mourning and grief among the Luo ethnic group to which Odinga belonged.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025

So I offered to fetch fresh lavender to strew in Gertrude’s bedchamber, and that night I knelt again on the ground, gathering the silvery, purple-tipped fronds of lavender into my arms.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein




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