fiddlehead

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fid=dle=head

CIDE DICTIONARY

fiddlehead, n. 

•  any of several tall ferns of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  New World fern (Osmunda cinnamonea) having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds, called also fiddlehead fern; the early uncurling fronds are edible, and sometimes considered as a vegetable delicacy.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  an ornament on a ship's bow, curved like the volute or scroll at the head of a violin. Sometimes it serves the function of a billhead.  [1913 Webster]