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).
Evergreen ferns, such as Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides) and Boston fern (Nephrolepis exaltata), are among the most popular flower arrangement foliage, commonly used as filler in large, mass arrangements or to accent a single stem arrangement.lmost any shrub in your garden works well as foliage for a flower arrangement, providing that the shape of the foliage complements the shape and size of the flowers used.