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What is a fiddlehead?

What is a fiddlehead? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The scroll-shaped decoration at the tip of a fiddle.
  2. A similar scroll-shaped ornament on a ship's bow.
  3. The furled fronds of a young fern harvested for food consumption.
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From there, you can hike an easy 2.3 miles past patches of yellow trout lilies, fiddlehead ferns and pink Himalayan jewel-weed to the five-stage Fuller Falls.
I could see wild ramps, garlic scapes, black radishes, fiddlehead ferns, and dozens of other plants tucked among the leaves and tendrils.
The head of the ship usually was finished off as a scrollhead or a fiddlehead.
New Brunswick, a fiddlehead is known as mahsos, a word which also has symbolic meanings of good magic.
Those sleds are made of a single plank turned up at one end like a fiddlehead, and the baggage is lashed on in bags and sacks.
The word fiddlehead was adopted because their young unfurled leaves look like the scrolls of fiddles.

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