fiddlehead   (TTS Sound)

The noun fiddlehead has 2 senses

• ostrich fern, shuttlecock fern, fiddlehead, Matteuccia struthiopteris, Pteretis struthiopteris, Onoclea struthiopteris -- (tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes)


• cinnamon fern, fiddlehead, fiddlehead fern, Osmunda cinnamonea -- (New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible)