Fronds

Remove the green fronds from the fennel stalks, chop them, and add to the bowl with the pine nuts. ❋ Laurie Constantino (2007)

Furniture made from cane and palm fronds is one of Iraq's oldest traditions. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They (alligator snappers, not Ernst & Barbour) have a carapace with very tall keels, each of which possesses high, sub-pyramidal knobs, a far more massive and nasty-looking head, and overall they’re more gnarly looking, with papillae and skin fronds projecting from their limbs, neck and elsewhere. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Annoyingly, supermarkets trim the crap out of the fronds of fennel, meaning I'll have to wait until the farmer's market on Wednesday to replenish my stocks not that that's the worst thing anyhow, but I also think that the freshness of the fronds was a major contributor to the success of the infusion. ❋ Jkd (2009)

Photo: The "fronds" of the $14-billion Palm Jumeirah in Dubai by Alexander Heilner via National Geographic Magazine's Visions of Earth ❋ Unknown (2009)

They had gone through the motions, playing tennis, spending time on the beach; a native came up to them and made a hat out of palm fronds, for which he'd paid the man $5—probably feed the family for a week, he guessed. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

The brooms, made from palm fronds in eastern Nigeria, are trucked into Lagos. ❋ Will Connors (2011)

This is where the red fern grows, I think, noting the rusty fronds finding shelter beneath a rock that pokes out from the side of the hill like a knuckle, like the shoulder blade of some ancient beast. ❋ Jason Lee Miller (2011)

The last time a small piece of fruit got so many people in trouble, palm fronds were in style and snake oil salesmen were actually serpents. ❋ M.D. James Beckerman (2011)

Leo had showed them all how to weave hats out of palm fronds and insisted everyone wear them as protection against the tropical sun. ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)

The shelter was about twelve feet long by eight feet wide, there were full-length seats either side, with soft pine fronds to soften the seat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Where Totoco is decorously austere, Jicaro is rather a boutique luxury retreat, complete with cool welcome drinks under sweeping palm fronds, fresh locally-grown coffee served on private decks, designer dinners, and a decadent Zen-like spa overlooking the still waters. ❋ Richard Bangs (2010)

Basically, in 3500 BC, they got some friends together on a field and had leather gloves and clubs and a ball made up of compressed palm fronds. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A terribly nice and passionate man called Richard Jenkins from the Environment Agency is, as we sit hunkered comfily like a couple of slack-jawed yokels sucking long grass fronds on the banks of the River Wear, telling me some astonishingly interesting things. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Koryta builds tension deftly and discreetly, with the coastal country itself contributing to the mounting claustrophobia, the "strange bird-of-paradise plants" which "pressed close, their wide green fronds stretching toward the sky in search of sunlight", the endless mangroves, the gathering storm. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In a bowl, toss the frisée, daikon radish, fennel bulb, fennel fronds, onion, and orange segments with the dressing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Imagine someone trying to hawk costume jewelry made with singed palm fronds from Boston's Cocoanut Grove nightclub—where a horrific fire killed 492 people in 1942. ❋ Eric Felten (2012)

With a spot-on graham crust, it's mellow-tart, as soothing as Morada's flapping palm fronds. ❋ Steve Garbarino (2011)

hello Frond how are you? or ~ [Faith], John, and [Greg] are my favorite [Fronds]! ❋ NOt_FuSiOn42 (2020)

Gina and [Lainie] are my favorite [fronds]! They always [make me laugh]! ❋ Kabby216 (2008)

Jill: [Wot] [ore] you going to do tonoght? Billy: Probobly [wotch] some Fronds ❋ StellaLuna826 (2011)

The Marine said, “My [frond] is slipping,” having little or no dress sense while in his current [deployment] in the field, as he should have just been wearing the right makeup or other appropriate [camouflage] for the job in the desert of forgotten dreams. ❋ Zamboozee (2011)

She and I had some pretty serious issues coming between us, so one day we met for [tea] and ended our [friendship]. Today we are no longer friends - just [fronds]. ❋ Tudorcity (2012)

“Hey, I heard [Jaxon] was Bean Fronding his [mom]’s [bra]?” ❋ Chasadia (2018)

Frond: the [fluffy], [friendly] [way to say] vagina. ❋ Pseudonymias (2017)

Gee, [Opie] [sure does] smell like a penis [frond]. ❋ Ultima (2003)

[Frondle]: the [fluffy], friendly [way to say] vagina. ❋ Pseudonymias (2017)

"1 TH1NK YOU M1GHT [B3] PULL1NG MY [FROND]" - "A LIMP FRONDED STOOGE" - "[BRAYING] UP THE WRONG FROND NUB" ❋ Z31F3R_K (2022)