Frond vs. Leaf — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Frond and Leaf
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Frond
A frond is a large, divided leaf. In both common usage and botanical nomenclature, the leaves of ferns are referred to as fronds and some botanists restrict the term to this group.
Leaf
A leaf (plural leaves) is the principal lateral appendage of the vascular plant stem, usually borne above ground and specialized for photosynthesis. The leaves, stem, flower and fruit together form the shoot system.
Frond
A leaf of a fern.
Leaf
A usually green, flattened, lateral structure attached to a stem and functioning as a principal organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in most plants.
Frond
A large compound leaf of a palm.
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Leaf
A leaflike organ or structure.
Frond
A leaflike thallus, as of a seaweed or lichen.
Leaf
Leaves considered as a group; foliage.
Frond
(botany) The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.
Leaf
The state or time of having or showing leaves
Trees in full leaf.
Frond
Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf.
Leaf
The leaves of a plant used or processed for a specific purpose
Large supplies of tobacco leaf.
Frond
The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.
Leaf
Any of the sheets of paper bound in a book, each side of which constitutes a page.
Frond
Compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad
Leaf
A very thin sheet of material, especially metal.
Leaf
Such leaves considered as a group
Covered in gold leaf.
Leaf
A hinged or removable section for a table top.
Leaf
A hinged or otherwise movable section of a folding door, shutter, or gate.
Leaf
A section of drawbridge that moves upward or to the side.
Leaf
One of several metal strips forming a leaf spring.
Leaf
To produce leaves; put forth foliage
Trees just beginning to leaf.
Leaf
To turn pages, as in searching or browsing
Leafed through the catalog.
Leaf
To turn through the pages of.
Leaf
The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
Leaf
Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
Leaf
A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
Leaf
A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
Gold leaf
Leaf
Two pages.
Leaf
(in the plural) Tea leaves.
Leaf
A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
Leaf
A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side.
Leaf
(botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
Leaf
In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
Leaf
The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
Leaf
One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
Leaf
Cannabis.
Leaf
A Canadian person.
Leaf
(intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
Leaf
(transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed.
Leaf
A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage.
Leaf
A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril.
Leaf
Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end;
They were both determined to turn over a new leaf.
Leaf
To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May.
Leaf
The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
Leaf
A sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
Leaf
Hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
Leaf
Look through a book or other written material;
He thumbed through the report
She leafed through the volume
Leaf
Turn over pages;
Leaf through a book
Leaf a manuscript
Leaf
Produce leaves, of plants
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