Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fiddlehead_fern

1 sense of fiddlehead fern

Sense 1
cinnamon fern, fiddlehead, fiddlehead fern, Osmunda cinnamonea -- (New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible)
       => flowering fern, osmund -- (any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters)