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fiddlehead fern

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Noun1.fiddlehead fernfiddlehead fern - New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
osmund, flowering fern - any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters

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Many of the ideas presented are on the cutting edge and deal with anything from abstract conucepts to fiddlehead ferns, from a number to numeral, from software to the nuts and bolts of a computer.
As he waits for airplanes that never come, he lives on "seaweed, the tops of fiddlehead ferns, the few berries .
I marked several, especially Jakehouse, which sells Christmas greenery and Wild About Oregon, which had a special on fiddlehead ferns (a Northwestern delicacy).
 
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