FIDDLEHEAD FERN

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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

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Nouns denoting plants

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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