fiddlehead has definitions from the field of botany
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[ noun ] (botany) tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes

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fern Matteuccia

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[ noun ] (botany) 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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flowering_fern

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