shuttlecock : Idioms & Phrases
battledore and shuttlecock
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noun an ancient racket game
battledore.
WordNet
shuttlecock fern
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noun tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
Onoclea struthiopteris; ostrich fern; Pteretis struthiopteris; Matteuccia struthiopteris; fiddlehead.