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Noun: fiddlehead fern
  1. New World fern having woolly cinnamon-coloured spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
    - cinnamon fern, fiddlehead, Osmunda cinnamonea

Derived forms: fiddlehead ferns

Type of: flowering fern, osmund

Encyclopedia: Fiddlehead fern

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