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    FIDDLEHEAD FERN

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     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 edibleplay

    Synonyms:

    cinnamon fern; fiddlehead; fiddlehead fern; Osmunda cinnamonea

    Classified under:

    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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