frond

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He released a solo album, “A Journal of the Plague Year,” two years later, recording with the psychedelic-folk duo Damon & Naomi and the Bevis Frond, a British rock group.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2018

He spent the early-morning hours in his bedroom tearing down homemade Bevis Frond posters and a paper chain he’d fashioned from gum wrappers.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 22, 2010

Frond divided into numerous strap-shaped, truncated segments, of various widths; it attains a height of several inches.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by MacGillivray, John

Frond more or less cavernous; the upper surface furnished with stomata.—These plants may be regarded as very simplified Araceæ.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Throwing out a strong cavalry screen in its front, this army advanced through Tongres, St. Frond, Laugen, Haelen, and Terlemont, and finally confronted the Belgians on the line from Louvain to Namur.

From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 by Various