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FIDDLEHEAD FERN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
Synonyms:
cinnamon fern; fiddlehead; fiddlehead fern; Osmunda cinnamonea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fiddlehead fern" is a kind of...):
flowering fern; osmund (any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters)
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