Commonly used to describe large, leafy parts of tropical plants, especially palms and tree ferns.

Plants and Trees

The term often evokes images of lush, tropical settings or paradisiacal landscapes.

Visual Imagery

'Frond' can symbolize growth, nature, and the tropics in poetry or descriptive writing.

Metaphoric Use

Often used in academic or scientific discussions about plant anatomy and physiology.

Botany Context

Fronds can be a sign of good environmental health, as they thrive in non-polluted areas.

Environmental Indicator

Frond patterns are popular in design and art, symbolizing nature and tranquility.

Decorative Motif

In technical contexts, 'frond' is specific to describing parts of seaweeds or marine plants.

Marine Biology

Fronds in marine settings provide habitat and food for a variety of sea life.

Ecosystem Structure

Research on fronds contributes to understanding climate change impacts on marine life.

Subject of Research

 and they could pull leaves off of trees and make shingles out of them, and they could make beds out of trees, and they could -- I watched this woman for three days. I was there. She was peeling this palm frond apart, these little threads off of it, and she'd roll the threads together and make little thicker threads, like strings,

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 back here in the Anthropocene the mist is thickening to drizzle the bedrock darkens deepening the contrast but shall we call this antique frond part fern

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 but each frond was created by dredging sand from the seabed and on the seabed is a grassland as rich as the plains of Africa