fern root
Britishnoun
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At Ursa Minor, Ms. Askue handles the front of the house and other aspects of the business; Mr. Coffey’s menu offers a vision of a “creative agrarian Northwest cuisine” that relies heavily on the historic bounty of the island — from lamb, beef and oysters, to orchard fruits, wild berries and garden vegetables — but also on nontraditional ingredients like licorice fern root, cherry blossoms and reindeer moss.
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And the people told the chiefs that they could not live on fern root and fight the soldiers at the same time.
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When I had reached the top, I found a number of men, women, and children sitting round their fires roasting snappers, crawfish, and fern root.
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"Had to dig a big fern root for Mary."
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“What’s that?” reached their ears, and they saw the sleeper feeling about till his hand came in contact with the dry fern root.
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