fiddlehead

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The scroll-shaped decoration at the tip of a fiddle
The furled fronds of a young fern harvested for food consumption
New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes