shuttlecock fern

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shuttlecock fern - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  shuttlecock fern
      n 1: tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful
           arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
           [syn: ostrich fern, shuttlecock fern, fiddlehead,
           Matteuccia struthiopteris, Pteretis struthiopteris,
           Onoclea struthiopteris]