From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Frond \Frond\ (fr[o^]nd), noun [L. frons, frondis, a leafy branch, foliage.] (Bot.) The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "frond": bine, blade, bough, bract, bracteole, bractlet, branch, branchedness, branchiness, burgeon, cotyledon, deadwood, flag, flagellum, floral leaf, foliole, fork, glume, involucre, involucrum, lamina, leaf, leaflet, lemma, ligule, limb, needle, offshoot, petal, pile, pine needle, ramage, ramification, runner, sarment, scion, seed leaf, sepal, shoot, slip, spathe, spear, spire, spray, sprig, sprit, sprout, stipula, stipule, stolon, sucker, switch, tendril, thallus, twig
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