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fiddle faddle |
fiddle with |
fiddle-faddle |
fiddle-shaped |
fiddledeedee |
fiddlehead
| fiddlehead fern
| fiddleneck
| fiddler
| fiddler crab
| fiddlestick
fiddlehead
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fiddlehead has 2 senses
- fiddlehead(n = noun.plant) matteuccia struthiopteris, onoclea struthiopteris, ostrich fern, pteretis struthiopteris, shuttlecock fern - tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes; Array is a kind of fern
- fiddlehead(n = noun.plant) cinnamon fern, fiddlehead fern, osmunda cinnamonea - New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible; Array is a kind of flowering fern, osmund
is a member of genus matteuccia, genus pteretis, matteuccia, pteretis
CIDE DICTIONARY
fiddlehead, n.
- any of several tall ferns of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes. [WordNet 1.5]
- New World fern (
Osmunda cinnamonea ) having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds, called alsofiddlehead fern ; the early uncurling fronds are edible, and sometimes considered as a vegetable delicacy. [WordNet 1.5] - 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. [1913 Webster]
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