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fiddlehead
 
Noun fiddlehead has 2 senses
  1. ostrich fern, shuttlecock fern, fiddlehead, Matteuccia struthiopteris, Pteretis struthiopteris, Onoclea struthiopteris - tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
    --1 is a kind of fern
    --1 is a member of Matteuccia, genus Matteuccia, Pteretis, genus Pteretis
  2. cinnamon fern, fiddlehead, fiddlehead fern, Osmunda cinnamonea - New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
    --2 is a kind of flowering fern, osmund
fid fidality fiddle-faddle fiddle-shaped fiddle fiddle with fiddleback fiddled fiddlehead fiddlehead fern fiddleneck fiddler fiddler crab fiddles fiddlestick fiddling fiddsence

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