frondescence

English

Noun

frondescence (uncountable)

  1. (botany) The time at which a plant unfolds its leaves.
  2. 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

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References
  • frondescence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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