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fiddlehead definition

fiddle·head (-hed′)

noun

  1. a carved decoration on a ship's bow, curved like the scroll of a violin head

  2. Etymology: so named from its shape

    the coiled tip of a young fern of any of certain species, often cooked and eaten as a vegetable; crosier
    also called fiddlehead fern

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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