Frond

Forster suggests that Swift wrote "Frond" or "Frowde" and there is every reason to believe that this was the case.

The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901

Forster suggests that Swift wrote "Frond" or "Frowde" and there is every reason to believe that this was the case.

The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706

Water Frond hovered above the palisade, her body illuminated as if by a great fire.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

Water Frond hovered above the palisade, her body illuminated as if by a great fire.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

And what is it doing to its addicts—people who know that Weirding Wards come cheaper if you harvest Filamentous Cobwebs yourself and that a Ban of Execration can be exempted by a Frond of Peace from the High Pontiff of the Glades of Enthorion?

The Most Dangerous Game Tom Shippey 2011

In July, FLOR, a division of InterfaceFLOR in Atlanta, launched the Tufted Frond pattern in its carpet tiles, which looks like scattered palm fronds littering a beach, as part of its new Martha Stewart Floor Designs (other styles in the nature-themed collection are called Acorn, Branch, Brook and Reed).

Mother Nature, Design Guru 2008

Frond composed of aggregated, articulated, longitudinal cells, whorled at intervals with short, horizontal, cylindrical or beaded, jointed ramuli.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 Various

Frond rigid and evergreen, one to two feet long, lanceolate, pinnate.

The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton

Frond two to nine inches high, both sterile and fertile segments at the top of the common stalk.

The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton

-- Frond filamentous, inarticulate, cartilaginous, leathery, hollow, furnished at irregular distances with whorls or warts, or necklace shaped.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 Various