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fiddle·head (-hed′)
noun
- a carved decoration on a ship's bow, curved like the scroll of a violin head
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; crosieralso called fiddlehead fern
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