frondent

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin frondens, present participle of frondere (“to put forth leaves”). See frond.

Adjective

frondent (comparative more frondent, superlative most frondent)

1. Covered with leaves; leafy.

   a frondent tree

   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     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 […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “frondent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• front end, front-end, frontend

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: fronde, frondes

Verb

frondent

1. third-person plural present indicative of fronder
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of fronder

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) frondent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of frondeō