What is "fronds"

Usage examples of "fronds".

They lived like animals, sleeping under palm fronds, popping the ampules night and day.

Birds and bushbabies and other things stared down from the green fronds and sent forth strange whoops of laughter.

He was on his back, under a canopy of woven fronds, which was certainly rustically unusual.

Jim Tillek that he had less strength than the fronds bowing to the light wind.

Behind each high wall was a garden, the tall palm trees entwining their fronds like a roof twenty feet overhead.

The patio was dappled with moonlight and the shadows of palm fronds, but it seemed to have no appeal for the other customers.

The four of them were crouched in a tight circle under the fronds in the diminishing daylight, heads close together, afraid to talk in a voice above a whisper.

The sun was not far above the horizon, its rays filtered through the fronds of the ferns that were the dominant vegetation in the vicinity of the human station.

The detector picked up the largest insects as they flitted about, and a few withered fronds as gusts of wind rattled them, but that was all.

Even those few sounds were muted by the proliferation of fronds, making the sounds seem eerily distant.

Combers as white as toothpaste broke on the shore, and there was no human litter, just dead fronds and driftwood and coconuts.

Beside him, the sun-browned fronds of a banana tree were feathering in the wind, making a crispy sound whenever a gust blew them back into the wall.

A brilliant moon flashed between the fronds, creating shadows from even the smallest of projections, and set back from the shore, half-hidden in deep shadow among palms and sea grape and cashew trees, were huts with glinting windows and tin roofs.

The edges of the tile roof framed a rectangle of stars and dark blue sky, with the crowns of palms showing half in silhouette, the ragged fronds throwing back pale green shines from the lights of the house next door.

He was sitting on a nest of palm fronds, drenched in a spill of buttery lightwe had partially unzipped the roof of the tent in order to increase ventilationand it looked as if the fronds were an island adrift in a dark void and he a spiritual being who had been scorched and twisted by some cosmic fire, marooned in eternal emptiness.