单词 | frond |
释义 | frondn.1 1. Botany. The leaf-like organ formed by the union of stem and foliage in certain flowerless plants. Formerly (and still in general language) applied also to the large compound leaves, e.g. of the palm, banana, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [noun] > frond(s) frond1785 frondage1842 frondlet1862 frondescence1888 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Leaf Frondes expresses leaves consisting of several other leaves and forming the whole plant.] 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxxii. 489 Our common species..may be known by the frond or leaf being ovate. 1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 478 The lower larger fronds were digitated, or rather radiated. 1840 E. Newman Hist. Brit. Ferns Introd. (1844) 31 The fronds of ferns are generally much divided. 1858 T. R. Jones Aquarian Naturalist 14 One or two fragments of stone with fronds of green sea-weed growing thereon. 1874 J. C. Geikie Life in Woods (ed. 2) vi. 110 The broad fronds of the pine trees. 1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ II. lv. 396 Cutting fronds..from the palm-trees that then lined the path. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 235 A frond differs from an ordinary leaf in usually bearing fructification. 2. Zoology. A leaf-like expansion found in certain animal organisms. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > plant-like > leaf-like frond1846 foliole1849 sepal1894 1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes 323 Small, foliaceous, fronds solitary. 1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 370 The fronds are mucilaginous when young. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). frondn.2 Surgery. (See quot. 1848.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > bandage > [noun] > bandage for specific part wristband1663 suspensory1699 etoile1706 scapular1739 scapulary1754 accipiter1813 frond1848 stapes1875 suspensor1896 1848 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Frond..a bandage employed principally in wounds and diseases of the nose and chin, and more especially in cases of fracture or dislocation of the lower jaw. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). frondv. intransitive. To wave with fronds.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1866 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell i A massive wood..crisping, fronding, feathering..here and there. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11785n.21848v.1866 |
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