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Fiddlehead

nounid 60485·updated May 18, 2026
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New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds

polysemous

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Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
cinnamon fernostrich fernshuttlecock fern
plural
Fiddleheads
possessive
Fiddlehead's
pluralpossessive
Fiddleheads'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary2 sensesview framework →
§1
New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds
§2
tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds
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