frondescence
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]frondescence (uncountable)
- (botany) The time at which a plant unfolds its leaves.
- The act of bursting into leaf.
- 1848, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany:
- Oaks putting forth young leaves this day , and frondescence everywhere apparent, except on ash - trees and black poplars
Translations
[edit]canopy development; leaf out
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References
[edit]- “frondescence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.