frondescence
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For several years, white deer have been seen munching ornamental frondescence in backyards and have become so popular among people that they are explicitly excluded from Charlottesville efforts to reduce the ruminating ungulate population.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 14, 2018
Chloranthy, then, is a more complete form of frondescence.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
Among Umbelliferæ affected with frondescence of the pistil a similar increase in the number of ovules takes place.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
The cane-fields are broad sheets of beautiful gold-green; and nearly as bright are the masses of pomme-cannelle frondescence, the groves of lemon and orange; while tamarind and mahoganies are heavily sombre.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
This list does not include those very numerous cases in which this change is associated with more or less complete frondescence or leafy condition of the petals.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
