facilitate. To quicken, in the sense here considered, is to increase speed, move or cause to move more rapidly, as through more space or with, a greater number of motions in the same time. To accelerate is to increase the speed of action or of motion. A motion whose speed increases upon itself is said to be accelerated, as the motion of a falling body, which becomes swifter with every second of time.
: one of the young unfurling fronds of some ferns that are often eaten as greens âcalled also fiddlehead fern.See fiddlehead defined for kids. ADVERTISEMENT. one of the young unfurling fronds of some ferns that are often eaten as greens âcalled also fiddlehead fern.
In Japan, fiddleheads of flowering fern (Osmunda japonica), known as zenmai in Japanese, as well as those of the ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris), known as kogomi, are commonly eaten in springtime. Fiddleheads in Japan are considered sansai, or wild vegetables.or the Maliseet, a native tribe or the area where the ostrich fern grows, fiddleheads were considered to be medicinal as well as a foodstuff and were gathered in quantity during the relatively brief season before they unfurl.