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Word Meanings - FROND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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  • FRONDEUR
    A member of the Fronde.
  • FORMALITY
    The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
  • PECULIARIZE
    To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
  • ORGANISTA
    Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.
  • FRONDED
    Furnished with fronds. "Fronded palms." Whittier.
  • ORGANICALNESS
    The quality or state of being organic.
  • FORMICARY
    The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
  • FORMULIZE
    To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
  • UNIONISTIC
    Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.
  • FORMERLY
    In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
  • ORGANOLOGY
    1. The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure. The science of style, as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. De Quincey. 2. That branch of biology
  • ORGANDIE; ORGANDY
    A kind of transparent light muslin.
  • ORGANOGRAPHIST
    One versed in organography.
  • ORGANOGRAPHY
    A description of the organs of animals or plants.
  • ORGAN
    A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action , which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs
  • FORMICAROID
    Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
  • FORME
    First. "Adam our forme father." Chaucer.
  • FORMIDABLY
    In a formidable manner.
  • FORMICATE
    Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
  • PECULIARNESS
    The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
  • INFORMITY
    Want of regular form; shapelessness.
  • OMNIFORMITY
    The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
  • FALCIFORM
    Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
  • DEFORMER
    One who deforms.
  • WATER-BEARER
    The constellation Aquarius.
  • DIVERSIFORM
    Of a different form; of varied forms.
  • INTERCOMMUNION
    Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
  • VARIFORM
    Having different shapes or forms.
  • PREFORM
    To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
  • RESINIFORM
    Having the form of resin.
  • BIFORM
    Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.
  • VILLIFORM
    Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
  • REFORMALIZE
    To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
  • FULL-FORMED
    Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.
  • SCORIFORM
    In the form of scoria.
  • MALCONFORMATION
    Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.

 

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