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fiddlehead vs flowering fern

flowering fern vs fiddlehead

fiddlehead and flowering fern both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
fiddlehead Yes No No No
flowering fern Yes No No No
As nouns, flowering fern is a hypernym of fiddlehead; that is, flowering fern is a word with a broader meaning than fiddlehead:
  • fiddlehead: 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: any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters
Other hypernyms of fiddlehead include osmund.
fiddlehead (noun) flowering fern (noun)
New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters
tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes Australasian fern with clusters of sporangia on stems of fertile fronds
Difference between fiddlehead and flowering fern

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