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. - OMNIFORMITY
The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More. - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - 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. - VILLIFORM
Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform. - BIFORM
Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall. - 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.