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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of a group of ferns of the genus Matteuccia, especially M. struthiopteris, of northern temperate regions, having long plumelike fronds that form a crown.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) a kind of fern (Onoclea Struthiopteris), the tall fronds of which grow in a circle from the rootstock. It is found in alluvial soil in Europe and North America.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes

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  1. ostrich fern
  1. pteretis struthiopteris
  1. shuttlecock fern
  1. matteuccia struthiopteris
  1. onoclea struthiopteris
  1. fiddlehead

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  • reesetee Bleccch. Sorry, great-grandmother. Oct 22, 2007

  • chained_bear Yeah! Like candy! Like... eel-flavored candy.

    Wait... Oct 20, 2007

  • yarb Eel (I've only eaten freshwater) is delicious, and would go very well with fiddleheads. Oct 20, 2007

  • rocksinmypockets It's like candy. Only better. Oct 20, 2007

  • chained_bear Eel is a perfectly good white fish. It's quite delightful! I can understand if you didn't want to CLEAN it yourself, but... impeccably cleaned, cooked, in bite-size pieces, with a nice terriyaki glaze on it? How could you NOT try it?

    I'm fond of it especially because my great-grandmother really liked it. Says my mom. Who also likes it. Oct 20, 2007

  • reesetee *shiver*

    I wouldn't touch eel with a 10-foot pole. Not if you paid me. Not for all the tea in China. Not in a million years.

    I do not like eel, Sam-I-Am. Oct 19, 2007

  • rocksinmypockets Eel is cooked, too, and super yummy. But I love the raw fish the most. :P Oct 19, 2007

  • reesetee Really? Didn't know that. Perhaps I will try those. It would also fit into my "don't eat anything that looks like it did before it died" rule. ;-) Oct 18, 2007

  • chained_bear You should try the crab (cooked), omelette (cooked) and... are the clams cooked too? Anyway... lots of the non-vegetable-type sushi varieties are cooked. Oct 18, 2007

  • reesetee I'm a sushi wimp. I only eat the vegetable rolls. Oct 18, 2007

  • rocksinmypockets Hmm, I bet sauteed ostrich ferns would be yummy in a sushi roll. Mmmmmm, sushi. Oct 18, 2007

  • chained_bear I didn't know it was this particular type of fern.

    I know that if they're cooked badly, they can make you sick. (Some chef I know told me that.) Then again... lots of things can, like sushi. *slaps knee* Oct 16, 2007

  • reesetee That's what I've heard too. I'm sure you'll keep us posted. :-) Oct 15, 2007

  • rocksinmypockets I wish that I could say I have. I only learned that you could this summer. Supposedly they taste sort of like asparagus, but I'll let you know for certain in the spring. Oct 15, 2007

  • reesetee I did, but have you tried them? What do they taste like? Oct 15, 2007

  • rocksinmypockets Did you know that you can eat the fiddleheads? Oct 15, 2007

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