FIDDLEHEAD FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fiddlehead fern mean? 

• FIDDLEHEAD FERN (noun)
  The noun FIDDLEHEAD FERN has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: FIDDLEHEAD FERN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIDDLEHEAD FERN (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 edible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cinnamon fern; fiddlehead; fiddlehead fern; Osmunda cinnamonea

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)