EGAVE

fiddlehead

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The scroll-shaped decoration at the tip of a fiddle.
  2. noun A similar scroll-shaped ornament on a ship's bow.
  3. noun The furled fronds of a young fern, sometimes harvested for food consumption.

Similar words

cinnamon fern ostrich fern fiddlehead fern matteuccia struthiopteris onoclea struthiopteris osmunda cinnamonea pteretis struthiopteris shuttlecock fern fern ferns

Often followed by

ferns poetry fern and restaurant books forum press did

Word family

fiddlehead fern fiddleheads

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