fiddlehead
Nouns
- (n) tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes Matteuccia struthiopteris, Onoclea struthiopteris, ostrich fern, Pteretis struthiopteris, shuttlecock fern,
- (n) New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible cinnamon fern, fiddlehead fern, Osmunda cinnamonea,