bracken; bracken fern
Refers to the plant Pteridium aquilinum, especially its edible young fiddleheads, a common wild vegetable in Japan.
In spring, we pick bracken in the mountains.
I remove the bitterness from the bracken before cooking it.
Japanese painted fern; Athyrium niponicum
furled bracken fronds · design motif resembling furled bracken fronds
warabitetō; fern-pommel sword
kamraj; tunjuk-langit; di wu gong
Standard kanji spelling for the bracken fern.
Kana spelling is common in everyday contexts, especially in menus or when the kanji is considered difficult.
The word わらび is of native Japanese origin. The kanji 蕨 is a phono-semantic compound used specifically for this plant.