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- tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
- New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
How To Use fiddlehead In A Sentence
- Many of the ideas presented are on the cutting edge and deal with anything from abstract concepts to fiddlehead ferns, from a number to numeral, from software to the nuts and bolts of a computer.
- Firm fronds open from coppery pink fiddleheads - golden green in youth, developing to rich, dark, glossy green.
- I ate ramps and spinach and pintle shoots and fiddleheads, everything green and full of life. Wildfire
- Ramps are usually the first wild food to be harvested by foragers out of the forest, followed by morels, fiddlehead ferns (small, unfurled edible ferns, whose green beans-meets-asparagus flavor is a love-it-or-hate-it proposition) and nettles. Restaurants See Signs of Spring
- Quietly we picked fiddlehead ferns and watercress.
- Also in its startling repertoire are foraged wild mushrooms, a beefsteak tomato carved tableside, fiddlehead ferns, acid-tinged calamondin oranges today called calamansi, and those now ubiquitous but then obscure cherry tomatoes and snow peas. Rozanne Gold: Joe Baum's Nasturtiums: A Tribute
- Also in its startling repertoire are foraged wild mushrooms, a beefsteak tomato carved tableside, fiddlehead ferns, acid-tinged calamondin oranges today called calamansi, and those now ubiquitous but then obscure cherry tomatoes and snow peas. Rozanne Gold: Joe Baum's Nasturtiums: A Tribute
- I found fat pintle shoots poking through dead leaves, fiddleheads in bracken beds, and lily bulbs. Wildfire
- Along the garage the fiddleheads of the ferns are up.
- Lauren chose the fritto misto with prawns and fiddlehead ferns.
