frondent

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UK/ˈfɹɒndənt/US/ˈfɹɑndənt/

adjective

Covered with leaves; leafy.

“a frondent tree”

OriginLatin frondens →
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Meanings

adjectivefrondent (comparative more frondent, superlative most frondent)

comparative more frondent · superlative most frondent

  1. archaicCovered with leaves; leafy.

    a frondent tree

    1 more example

    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

    1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VI, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book VII (The Insurrection of Women), page 260

Origin

  1. Latinfrondens
  2. Englishfrondent

From Latin frondens, present participle of frondere (“to put forth leaves”). See frond.

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APA

frondent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frondent

MLA

“frondent.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frondent. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “frondent,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frondent.

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