Lexic.us

Definition of Fiddlehead

1. Noun. Tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes.

2. Noun. 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 of Fiddlehead

1. Noun. The scroll-shaped decoration at the tip of a fiddle. ¹

2. Noun. The furled fronds of a young fern harvested for food consumption. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fiddlehead

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fiddlehead

fiddle around fiddle away fiddle the books fiddle with fiddleback fiddlebacks fiddled fiddled with fiddledeedee fiddlehead (current term)

fiddlehead fern fiddleheads fiddleleaf fiddleleafs fiddleneck fiddler fiddler crab fiddler crabs fiddlers fiddles

fiddles with fiddlestick fiddlesticks fiddlestring

Literary usage of Fiddlehead

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Conservation and Development of Nontimber Forest Products in the Pacific edited by Bettina Von Hagen, James F. Weigand, Rebecca McLain, Roger Fight (1998)
"Economic history of ostrich fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, the edible fiddlehead. Economic Botany. 38(1): 14-23. Describes the factors that have led to a ..."

2. The Artichoke Trail: A Guide to Vegetarian Restaurants, Organic Food Stores by James A Frost (2000)
"Travelers lucky enough to find themselves in this neck of the woods should pay a visit to fiddlehead Restaurant & Bakery (429 W. Willoughby Ave., ..."

3. Advanced Guide Canada's Atlantic Provinces by Barbara Radcliffe Rogers, Stillman Rogers (2005)
"Plaster Rock celebrates this bounty in its fiddlehead Festival each July 1, on Canada Day. • Natural Areas & Wildlife The best-known natural attraction in ..."

4. The American Coast Pilot: Containing Directions for the Principal Harbors by Edmund March Blunt, George William Blunt (1847)
"... and also to the westward of the Fiddle-head Shoal; proceed with this mark on until a red house on fiddlehead Point comes on with the dark rocky extreme ..."

5. Adventure Guide Inside Passage & Coastal Alaska by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"The fiddlehead is Juneau's most famous eatery — the restaurant even puts out its own cookbook. Located at 429 Willoughby, near downtown, B1 586-3150, ..."

6. Under the Sky in California by Charles Francis Saunders (1913)
"... with pearly chalices, cousins to the baby-blue-eyes of the mainland; orange coils of fiddlehead, and twinkling wild pop-corn flowers in white. ..."

7. The Castles and Keeps of Scotland: Being a Description of Sundry Fortresses by Frank Roy Fraprie (1907)
"The path to the castle descends the steep cliffs of the mainland, and passes under defensive outworks on an outlying spur called the fiddlehead. ..."

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