1. 1  a product of simple manual skill, as a plaited leather cord for the neck or a knife sheath, made typically by a camper or a scout. 2  work of little or no value done merely to keep or look busy. 3  a project funded by the federal government out of political favoritism that is of no real value to the community or the nation.
Unfurling fiddlehead fern frond. A frond is a large, divided leaf. In both common usage and botanical nomenclature, the leaves of ferns are referred to as fronds and some botanists restrict the term to this group. Other botanists allow the term frond to also apply to the large leaves of cycads and palms (Arecaceae).
1 Most leaf fossils from tbe coal fields are fossil fern leaves. 2  Fern leaf fossils generally have a central ridge or elongate furrow, with tin lines or veins arching away from the ridge, similar to modern fern leaves. 3  They are often black (from organic carbon like coal) and occur in dark gray shales.ere are some possibilities. 1  The most commonly misidentified fossils with flower shapes are types of plant fossils called sphenopsids. 2  Flower shapes in limestone, are most often 5-sided and are fossils of echinoderms.