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FIDDLEHEAD
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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" 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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
Synonyms:
fiddlehead; Matteuccia struthiopteris; Onoclea struthiopteris; ostrich fern; Pteretis struthiopteris; shuttlecock fern
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("fiddlehead" is a kind of...):
fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)
Holonyms ("fiddlehead" is a member of...):
genus Matteuccia; genus Pteretis; Matteuccia; Pteretis (small genus sometimes included in genus Onoclea; in some classifications both genera are placed in Polypodiaceae)
