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fiddlehead
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tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
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2. noun
New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
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