fiddlehead
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1. New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | flowering fern, osmund, |
definition | : | any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters (noun.plant) |
2. tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | fern, |
definition | : | any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores (noun.plant) |
member meronym | : | genus matteuccia, genus pteretis, matteuccia, pteretis, |
definition | : | small genus sometimes included in genus Onoclea; in some classifications both genera are placed in Polypodiaceae (noun.plant) |
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