Fiddlehead
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds
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Wordset Dictionary
tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- cinnamon fernostrich fernshuttlecock fern
- plural
- Fiddleheads
- possessive
- Fiddlehead's
- pluralpossessive
- Fiddleheads'