Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fiddlehead

2 senses of fiddlehead

Sense 1
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)
       => fern -- (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Sense 2
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)
       => flowering fern, osmund -- (any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters)