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Sentence Examples I looked and could see nothing at all but dried, brown leaves with a few delicate fern fronds thrusting through them. At the end of the wall we inadvertently disturbed a hawksbill turtle resting among the fronds of a soft coral. At headquarters in Freetown, palm fronds weighted down by rain blocked an Aironet connection to the heliport. Ancient Pacific Islanders had surprisingly accurate maps made out of palm fronds, with shells marking positions of islands. Its reception area is a palapa, a huge, open-air structure roofed with dried palm fronds. The sun was reaching into the shady side, and giving the fronds of the garden ferns an afternoon treat. Fertile fronds have clusters of elongate sporangia that partially replace pinnules. A typical drink is palm wine, fermented sap tapped from coconut palm fronds. Divide mixture among four soup bowls, place one portion of fish in each bowl and garnish with tapenade and fennel fronds. She heard some rustling, and glanced out the window at the palm tree waving its fronds in the wind. Ferns increase in percent cover until July when the fronds are fully expanded. In one hectare, the utilizable wood volume of coconut fronds per palm is about 996 board feet per year. Leaving fronds with nesting bats untrimmed keeps the young bat families safe and the trimming of other palm fronds nearby does not disturb them. During the breeding season they develop a golden wash on the upper wing due to their habit of nesting in the fronds of the palm trees. The fronds of dabberlocks are often eroded by the savage battering they take from storms. Typically, the fronds develop from croziers or fiddle heads that develop into a single plane. Even seabirds that dive into the jungle of wavy fronds must now look for food elsewhere. Marginal shield fern is an evergreen fern, which grows as a non-spreading, vase-shaped clump with handsome gray-green, leathery fronds. The prime characteristic of grasses is their movement in the breeze and the effect of changing light on their feathered fronds. The other is Palmaria palmata, or Dulse, a red-brown seaweed with fronds radiating from a central disc. Show More Sentences The languorously limbed trees droop into the water, often shedding their prodigious fronds, providing a sheltered habitat for fish. To give your palms an instant face lift, remove any dead fronds, heavy seed heads and remnants of dead stalk from the trunks. Common medusoids and fronds, however, do not generally show this restriction. Flocks of terns and cormorants fished offshore, while fronds of kelp writhed in the surf like the flailing arms of sea monsters. The ashes are made by burning palm fronds from the previous year's Palm Sunday and getting 'em blessed by someone with the proper credentials. It is a hut supported by poles, with walls of palm fronds, cane, clay, or boards. In dry weather, rusty woodsia fronds dry out and curl up, but they can turn green again after a rain. Up the slope of the mountain the scrub is less, and massed burrawangs hang out their fronds as if to repel the wanderer. These male ferns produce elegant, frilly fronds up to 3 feet long and spread if spores fall in the right conditions. The stroma of the papillary fronds consisted of loose fibrous tissue with abundant, thin-walled, congested blood vessels. Pink shrimps and flatfish abound, and brightly coloured juvenile lumpsuckers stick to the kelp fronds. All of these foliage forms are planate pinnate fronds, frequently with open venation. You may pick a sprig of rosemary or thyme, or a few fronds of parsley or dill, but you'll pick an armload of basil. But I could not find woven coconut fronds in enough numbers for the thatch of the theatre. The sun is shining, the birds are twittering, palm fronds are waving lazily in the breeze and waves are lapping the shoreline. Thibeault favors bear's foot ferns, which are good floor plants with long fronds. The thatched roofs are made out of palm fronds, and the walls out of bamboo or cane. Another team were being lashed by bracken fronds and splashed with water as they tried to cross the beck while blinded by blackened goggles. We swoop down a canyon to see fronds of black coral growing beneath a slight overhang. Bright green metallic fronds, in the shape of palm trees, still branch out from their stands. Show More Sentences The fronds were stiffened by ice and arched over the trickle like a tunnel of swords at a wedding. They share specific features, such as the sharply pointed fronds and the sinuous stalks of flowers growing out of the volutes. The palm fronds stand for victory while the Oriental dragon personifies vigilance and preparedness. They resemble palmettos or palms, with long graceful fronds emanating from the top of a squat to elongated trunk. Slugs will occasionally eat the young fronds of variegated shield, deer, hayscented or southern shield ferns. The anemone fish shelters within the waving fronds of the anemone host, enticing other small fishes into the anemone's trap. It is a graceful arching fern with fronds that are generally bipinnate, although the basal pinnae are tripinnate. The mechanism of the limpet effect involved sheltering of the limpet by the foliose fronds of this turf-forming alga. Among the fronds are swimming crabs, hermits, prawns and well-camouflaged scorpionfish. The new Mediterranean Garden is beginning to grow, and the new tree fern now has 6 fronds and more coming on. There were large palm fronds strung around the village to protect it from evil and to cleanse any evil person who entered the village. This hardy evergreen has glossy, leathery fronds and gradually will reach 3 feet or more in height and width. This attractive liverwort has dissected edges to its fronds, giving the appearance of small petals. If using baby fennel, simply trim away any tough outer leaves and slice off the bottom and top of the fronds. The branches seem to be laid out flat, like fern fronds, while it is the colouring that gives the foliage variety of appearance and depth. According to Ewe tradition, the arrival of the Alaga, clad in palm fronds, signals a day of vengeance. Fallen leaves are swept into heaps, only to be blown away again and large palm fronds and tree branches scatter the tarmac. Four hundred tons of white beach sand has been spread across the shore, with palm fronds and bright sunshades offering a cool shelter to the revellers. All round us, the lilies, lotuses, white trailing fronds of aquatic plants are opening up their own restaurants to a buzz of water beetles and insects. The flat, strappy foliage of the exotic night bloomer contrasts texturally with a bed companion, the enormous, finely cut fronds of an Australian tree fern. Show More Sentences We grasped kelp to anchor us, so as not to be taken out in the backwash, and clambered over its slimy fronds to the jumble of boulders that constituted the beach. In the male shield fern these are located along the midrib, while in the marginal-fruited shield fern they are placed on the margins of the divisions of the fronds. Big female cuckoo wrasse, pollack, several bib and a John Dory were all I could see, although my view was slightly obscured by several fronds of kelp. The sea bed was covered by fronds of kelp which swayed to and fro in the water, grabbing our legs as we began our course around the pier's outer edge. Mites damage ferns by puncturing the edges of fern fronds with their tube-like stylets and other mouthparts, sucking up the nutritious contents of frond cells. Its coppery brown fronds turn a golden yellow in the autumn. The fronds differ in these ferns, the Bear's foot being wavy and serrated. There were fresh shrimp, mussels, and codfish in the mix, and little fronds of carrot and fennel, all of which were nicely fried to a golden, tempura-like crispness. Once unfurled, the fronds produce a more bitter, unappetizing flavor. Pieced together, they represent Wattieza, a tree that looked like modern-day palm with a crown of fronds that grew up to 30 feet high and reproduced through spores. To understand these diagrams it is important to keep in mind that the duckweed plants consists of a cluster of fronds descended from a single mother frond. Once the fronds have given off their spores, they die and can be cut back. The typical two-room house is built of cob, coconut fronds, or raffia. Lepidoteris fronds typically have so-called intercalary pinnules along the rachis between the primary pinnae, and are covered with the characteristic blisters mentioned above. Add the blood orange segments, pomegranate seeds, and fennel fronds and toss gently to mix. I like the gray-green leaves of water lettuce, another boatlike floater, and the tiny fronds of Azolla filiculoides, a fern that happens to float. The fern most prized by the Maori was Asplenium bulbiferum, the hen and chicken fern, so called because of its habit of producing new plants on the old fronds. Macrofouling is defined as large, distinct multicellular organisms visible to the human eye such as barnacles, tubeworms, or fronds of algae. Place 2 baguette toast slices in each of 4 soup plates, spoon in bourride and top with another slice of toast and minced fennel fronds. The Egyptian government prohibited the export of palm fronds due to their proximity to the hearts of palm. Show More Sentences Kerstin Franke-Gneuss's etching and drypoint works are delicate and look like fronds of plants. The first several sporophyte fronds were simple, cuneate at base, with single or forked free veinlets. While beet is cooking, cut fronds off fennel bulb, and either shred fennel on a mandoline or cut into matchstick-size pieces. Some flowering plants such as palms and members of the carrot family have pinnate leaves that somewhat resemble fern fronds. Nature prints in The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland used fronds to produce the plates. Smaller but striking too is the Ostrich fern whose upright fronds are arranged like a shuttlecock. All three species are medium-sized, rhizomatous, herbaceous plants with 3-pinnate fronds and orbicular sori covered with reniform indusia. Oil palm especially the fronds has a high potential to be used in overcoming this problem. On the underside of the young fronds is the downy brown pulu or indumentum. From the holdfasts rise stalks, and from them grow fronds buoyant with carbon dioxide-filled bubbles called pneumatocysts. An alien Caulerpa in the Mediterranean can have a stolon more than 9 feet long, with up to 200 fronds. Created using the midribs of coconut fronds, these charts were not referred to during the voyage. However, it is rarely found on exposed shores, and if it is found, the fronds are usually small and badly scratched. The fronds of some Carboniferous ferns are almost identical with those of living species. A further possible reason is that fronds and branches of yew were often used as a substitute for palms on Palm Sunday. Slightly smaller than the species, it has crested pinnae tips and fronds, creating a very interesting shape. Palm fronds are woven into fans, shoes and baskets in Jalcomulco, Ozulama and Tlalixcoyan. The fronds were used to cover a basket full of huckleberries in order to keep them fresh. Hydrogen cyanide is released by the young fronds of bracken when eaten by mammals or insects. These cause uncontrollable, repeated moulting in insects ingesting the fronds, leading to rapid death. Show More Sentences Production waste, such as fronds, fibers, mesocarps, kernel cakes, palm shells, and liquid waste require proper handling to avoid polluting the environment. This rootstock may travel a metre or more underground between fronds. Two slow-growing palms with blue fronds, the jelly palm, with edible fruit, and blue Hesper palm, also warrant consideration as container specimens. It is unusual amongst seaweeds because the fronds are only one cell thick. The fructification of the spores is effected by the turbid fluid which proceeds from the apertures of the anthoid organs, and flows over the surface of the fronds. Like other ferns, brackens do not have seeds or fruits, but the immature fronds, known as fiddleheads, are sometimes eaten, although some are thought to be carcinogenic. Bushtits, those tiny eager verbs, stitched a long hirsute Nest among hanging fronds with such astounding skill That you would think it just detritus if you saw it at all. Examples from Classical Literature In structure they are coriaceous, and include plants both with broad and narrow, branched and unbranched fronds. In this the ramenta are confined, or nearly so, to the under surface of the fronds. The fronds of the male fern, for instance, start in the bud at least two years before they actually unfold. The fronds may be moved into a portfolio formed of sheets of stoutish paper. Sometimes one finds here fronds of laminaria which have been washed ashore. The sporangia of the Bristle Fern are borne of the veins in the lobes of the fronds. They frequently were seen on the trunks of corozo palms, where they quickly took refuge in crevices at the bases of the fronds. They are Indo-Malayan ferns with creeping rhizomes and long-stalked, fan-shaped, forked, leathery fronds. This species is often abundant on the fronds of laminaria washed ashore, and also on Rhodymenia and Fucus. The fronds of the ebony spleenwort usually face the sun, even if so doing necessitates the twisting of its stalk. Ferns, with fronds circinate in vernation, bearing the fructification on the under surface or beneath the margin. A triangular tray of bayug or of ilang-ilang wood decorated with palm fronds is made and suspended from the rafters of the house. It needed only a moment's investigation to identify the leathery, tapering fronds of the walking fern. The great round fruit-dots of the polypody show distinctly through the fronds as they stand erect in the sunlight. He turned his head painfully, and now saw that his windows were surrounded by mauve fronds of wisteria. It is represented with its fronds of leaves, and its organs of fructification. Through the sea of green, lofty tree-ferns thrust their great delicate fronds, and the lehua flaunted its scarlet blossoms. The new fronds of the pion had expanded to full size and now their needles quivered in the heat of the almost summer-like day. The Mountain buckler fern dies down in the winter and the new fronds appear in the spring. Where the stream plunges from above, the bulblet Bladder Fern drapes the steep banks with its long feathery fronds. Show More Sentences Wrapped in a garment of brown scales, the young fronds of the Christmas fern are sent into the world early in the spring. I hear that some children in some places eat the young fronds of cinnamon fern, but I never saw it done. As in the sensitive fern there are many curious gradations between the fertile and sterile fronds, both in shape and fruitfulness. An intermediate form between the fertile and sterile fronds is sometimes found, as in the sensitive fern. After this I munched some bread and hard cheese, sucked the dew from the fern fronds, and then fell into a broken sleep. Slender purple grasses topped with red and yellow fern-like fronds grew rankly all about us to the height of several feet above my head. Small, fronds 1-2 pinnate, fruit-dots linear-oblong, often confluent. Greek, pteron, a wing, the feathery fronds suggesting the wings of a bird. The Prickly buckler fern retains its fronds through the winter. Besides, the sterile fronds of the latter have serrulate segments. The fronds of the lady fern develop in the spring of the year. In the damper hollows the Mauritia palms threw out their graceful drooping fronds. Immense trees reared their mighty heads far above us, their broad fronds completely shutting off the slightest glimpse of the sky. Having accomplished his aim and driven the enemy from his lair, Tarzan gathered an armful of large fronds and climbed to his dripping couch. The familiar fronds of striking fragrant lilac-blue blooms of wisteria adorning walls or draped over trellises and pergolas are an amazing sight. Medium-sized, fronds thin, oblong-lanceolate, 2-3 pinnate or pinnatifid. The palmlike plant with its aerial roots and spiny fronds was growing in the chemically unique soil directly above the pipe. In all botanical works the fronds are incorrectly said to be bipinnate. Then, stopping to look back once or twice, he slunk off among the bushes to the right of me, and I heard the swish of the fronds grow faint in the distance and die away. The density values were affected by the anatomical structure in the oil palm fronds by its population of vascular bundles and parenchymatous tissues. Show More Sentences This platform he paved with the huge fronds of elephant's ear which grew in profusion about them, and over the fronds he laid a great sail folded into several thicknesses. Its seeds were simply poured down into the water of the Wey and Thames, and its swiftly growing and Titanic water fronds speedily choked both those rivers. The fronds became bleached, and then shrivelled and brittle. Remove the fennel fronds from the bulb, chop and put to one side. A flock of yellow-throated sandgrouse glides above wispy fronds of thatching grass, while hyrax scurry into the cracks of granite kopjes, escaping the now searing midday sun. Find more words! 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