A frond's a large leaf with many divisions to it, and the term's typically used for the leaves of palms, ferns or cycads. A frond's the leaf- like structure of a fern or alga. The term's colloquially applied to the leaves of palms, cycads, and plants with pinnately compound leaves. A significant difference's that, unlike the leaves of the latter, fern fronds bear the reproductive structures (spore-bearing structures) of the sporophyte plant. Because many ferns grow fronds that're held more ver… (More on Frond)