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  • noun Plural form of frond.

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Examples

  • Remove the green fronds from the fennel stalks, chop them, and add to the bowl with the pine nuts.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Laurie Constantino 2007

  • Remove the green fronds from the fennel stalks, chop them, and add to the bowl with the pine nuts.

    Recipe: Pasta with Sardines and Fennel Laurie Constantino 2007

  • Furniture made from cane and palm fronds is one of Iraq's oldest traditions.

    Tough time for furniture makers 2006

  • They (alligator snappers, not Ernst & Barbour) have a carapace with very tall keels, each of which possesses high, sub-pyramidal knobs, a far more massive and nasty-looking head, and overall they’re more gnarly looking, with papillae and skin fronds projecting from their limbs, neck and elsewhere.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Annoyingly, supermarkets trim the crap out of the fronds of fennel, meaning I'll have to wait until the farmer's market on Wednesday to replenish my stocks not that that's the worst thing anyhow, but I also think that the freshness of the fronds was a major contributor to the success of the infusion.

    Archive 2009-07-01 jkd 2009

  • Annoyingly, supermarkets trim the crap out of the fronds of fennel, meaning I'll have to wait until the farmer's market on Wednesday to replenish my stocks not that that's the worst thing anyhow, but I also think that the freshness of the fronds was a major contributor to the success of the infusion.

    Infusions and Cocktails: Update jkd 2009

  • Photo: The "fronds" of the $14-billion Palm Jumeirah in Dubai by Alexander Heilner via National Geographic Magazine's Visions of Earth

    Intelligent Travel Blog 2009

  • Basically, in 3500 BC, they got some friends together on a field and had leather gloves and clubs and a ball made up of compressed palm fronds.

    Five Reasons Baseball Isn't All That American... | myFiveBest 2010

  • The brooms, made from palm fronds in eastern Nigeria, are trucked into Lagos.

    A Campaign to Clean Up Politics Leaves Nigeria With Dirty Floors Will Connors 2011

  • The last time a small piece of fruit got so many people in trouble, palm fronds were in style and snake oil salesmen were actually serpents.

    The Flex Diet M.D. James Beckerman 2011

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