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).
Although most ferns reproduce using spores, one group evolved seeds although they were not ancestral to other seed plants. Fern leaves possess a highly branched vascular system. Some ferns in. have leaves that are 6-9 m long and probably the most complex leaves in the plant kingdom.nlike most algae, land plants have a multicellular jacket for protecting the reproductive cells. BRYOPHYTES: liverworts, hornworts, mosses; 23,000 modern species. Spores of bryophytic plants represent the first known land plants from the Middle Ordovician.