fiddlehead
11fiddlehead fern — noun see fiddlehead …
12fiddlehead fern — noun New World fern having woolly cinnamon colored spore bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible • Syn: ↑cinnamon fern, ↑fiddlehead, ↑Osmunda cinnamonea • Hypernyms: ↑flowering fern,… …
13fiddlehead — /fid l hed /, n. 1. Naut. a billethead having a form similar to the volute carved at the upper end of a violin. 2. the young, coiled frond of various species of ferns, eaten as a vegetable. [1790 1800; FIDDLE + HEAD] * * * …
14fiddlehead — noun a) The scroll shaped decoration at the tip of a fiddle. b) The furled fronds of a young fern harvested for food consumption. Syn: scroll, circinate vernation …
15fiddlehead — fid•dle•head [[t]ˈfɪd lˌhɛd[/t]] n. pln the young coiled frond of a fern …
16fiddlehead — /ˈfɪdlhɛd/ (say fidlhed) noun an ornament at the bow of a ship, containing a scroll somewhat like that at the head of a violin …
17The Fiddlehead — is a Canadian literary magazine, published four times annually at the University of New Brunswick. The journal was established in 1945 by Alfred Bailey as an in house publication for the Bliss Carman Poetry Society; it was converted into a… …
18Matteuccia struthiopteris — fiddlehead fid dle*head n. 1. any of several tall ferns of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes. Syn: ostrich fern, shuttlecock fern, {Matteuccia struthiopteris}, {Pteretis… …
19Onoclea struthiopteris — fiddlehead fid dle*head n. 1. any of several tall ferns of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes. Syn: ostrich fern, shuttlecock fern, {Matteuccia struthiopteris}, {Pteretis… …
20Osmunda cinnamonea — fiddlehead fid dle*head n. 1. any of several tall ferns of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes. Syn: ostrich fern, shuttlecock fern, {Matteuccia struthiopteris}, {Pteretis… …
