fronded

Dear BelQ- Aside from this being a beautiful picture of a blog, it allowed you to use the word "fronded"-what could be better?

Hymn on a Highway Belinda 2007

How often have I known that poem to be recited by those who did not even know the meaning of the word "fronded"!

Part of a Man's Life: Books Unread 1904

The huge-fronded banana trees were violently agitated as by the threshing of a hidden Titan.

WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE 2010

An invisible streamlet whispered under broad-fronded brakes.

CHAPTER XXII 2010

Plus there is the marvel of Richie Benaud's hair in its early middle-aged pomp, a miraculous silver turban of densely fronded uber-grooming.

My Beef with England: if only we had an Ian Botham now | Barney Ronay 2011

A great crystal chandelier hung overhead, fronded with strings of gray cobweb that drifted in the disturbed air like ancient lace curtains.

Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010

Mother kept a couple of trees out back, green-trunked and gray-fronded, but those would have been too bitter.

The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010

Mother kept a couple of trees out back, green-trunked and gray-fronded, but those would have been too bitter.

Archive 2010-03-01 Fred Kiesche 2010

The girl indicated an enormous, fronded trunk at the edge of the clearing.

"The Morons" by Harl Vincent, part 3 Johnny Pez 2010

Returning home I took the back way through the country and saw signs for Balsam and Claremont and Myrtle--pretty, old fashioned names--and drove past more ditches resplendent with grasses, goldenrod, bull rushes--all fringed and fronded!

Hymn on a Highway Belinda 2007