a. [f. L. frondifer bearing leaves (f. frond-, FROND sb.1: see -(I)FEROUS).] Bearing leaves or fronds.
1599. R. Linche, Fount. Anc. Fiction, M iij. Her apparrell is wouen and composed of greene hearbes, all ouershadowed with frondiferous boughes, discouering thereby the infinite numbers of trees, plants, and flowers, growing on the earth.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Frondiferous, that beareth leaves or branches.
1825. Hamilton, Hand-bk. Terms, Frondiferous … in Botany, bearing leaves.
1885. Syd. Soc. Lex., Frondiferous, leaf-bearing; applied to flowers which produce leaves. Also applied to plants, like ferns, which bear fronds.
