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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The leaf of a fern.
  2. n. A large compound leaf of a palm.
  3. n. A leaflike thallus, as of a seaweed or lichen.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In bot.:
  2. n. As used by Linnæus, a leaf, especially the leaf of a palm or fern.
  3. n. Now, specifically, a leaf of a fern or other cryptogam, the thallus of a lichen, or any other leaf-like expansion which includes both stem and foliage, as the disk of Lemna.
  4. n. In zoology, the foliaceous or leaf-like expansion of certain animal organisms, as of various polyzoans and actinozoans, which resemble plants in the mode of growth of the polypstock.

Wiktionary

  1. n. botany The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.
  2. n. Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; ; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad

Etymologies

  1. From Latin frons ("leafy branch"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin frōns, frond-, foliage. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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