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Fiddlehead   Listen
noun
fiddlehead  n.  
1.
Any of several tall ferns of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes.
Synonyms: ostrich fern, shuttlecock fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, Pteretis struthiopteris, Onoclea struthiopteris.
2.
New World fern (Osmunda cinnamonea) having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds, called also fiddlehead fern; the early uncurling fronds are edible, and sometimes considered as a vegetable delicacy.
Synonyms: cinnamon fern, fiddlehead fern, Osmunda cinnamonea.
3.
(Naut.) An ornament on a ship's bow, curved like the volute or scroll at the head of a violin. Sometimes it serves the function of a billhead.






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Words linked to "Fiddlehead" :   Onoclea struthiopteris, genus Pteretis, ostrich fern, cinnamon fern, shuttlecock fern, fiddlehead fern, flowering fern, Pteretis, Osmunda cinnamonea, Pteretis struthiopteris



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