Miso soup containing a chicken's head as decoration (6)
I believe the answer is:
mosaic
'decoration' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'miso soup containing a chicken's head' is the wordplay.
'soup' indicates an anagram.
'containing' is an insertion indicator.
'head' suggests taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'chickens' is 'c'.
'miso' is an anagram of 'mosi'.
'mosi' placed around 'a' is 'mosai'.
'mosai'+'c'='MOSAIC'
'as' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for mosaic that I've seen before include "Law of the Jews from Mt Sinai" , "Tessellated pattern" , "Design of little pieces" , "Small square in pattern" , "Artistic design of glass or stones" .)