frondent
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Etymology edit
From Latin frondens, present participle of frondere (“to put forth leaves”). See frond.
Adjective edit
frondent (comparative more frondent, superlative most frondent)
- (archaic) Covered with leaves; leafy.
- a frondent tree
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- And near before us is Versailles, New and Old; with that broad frondent Avenue de Versailles between,—stately-frondent, broad, three hundred feet as men reckon, with four Rows of Elms […]
References edit
- “frondent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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