noun
Meaning 1
The scroll-shaped decoration at the tip of a fiddle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: scroll
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
fiddlehead
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈfɪdəlˌhɛd/
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noun
Meaning 2
A similar scroll-shaped ornament on a ship's bow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The furled fronds of a young fern, sometimes harvested for food consumption.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: circinate vernation, crosier, tete de violin, tete-de-violin, violin head
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cinnamon fern, fiddlehead fern, Osmunda cinnamonea
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: flowering fern, osmund
noun
Meaning 5
tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ostrich fern, shuttlecock fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, Pteretis struthiopteris, Onoclea struthiopteris
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fern
History
Etymology
From fiddle + head.
Across languages
Translations
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- French: crosse de fougère — food
- French: tête-de-violon — food
- Malay: pucuk paku — food
- Māori: pikopiko — food
- Polish: pastorał — food