Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FROND, n. [L. frons, frondis. The sense is a shoot or shooting forward, as in frons, frontis.]

In botany, a term which Linnaeus applies to the peculiar leafing of palms and ferns. He defines it, a kind of stem which has the branch united with the leaf and frequently with the fructification. The term seems to import the union of leaf and a branch. Martyn. Milne.