frondent (frondent)

[=Pg. frondente, Near before us is Versailles, New and Old; with that broad, frondent Avenue de Versailles between, stately, frondent , broad, three hundred feet as men reckon, with its four rows of elms. Carlyle, French Rev., 1. vii. 6. frondesce (fron-des'), v . i.; pret. and pp. fron desced , ppr. frondescing . [ frondescere , become leafy, put forth leaves, inceptive of fron dere, have or put forth leaves: see frondent .] To unfold or develop leaves, as plants. frondescence (fron-des'ens), n . [ t )+-ce.] In bot .: ( a ) The period or state of coming into leaf. (b) The substitution of leaves for other organs; phyllody. (c) Leafage; foliage. The cane fields are broad sheets of beautiful gold-green; and nearly as bright are the ma es of pom me-cannelle frondescence, the groves of lemon and orange. Harper's Mag . , LXXVII. 216.