crosier

  1. Noun.  A staff with a hooked end similar to a shepherd's crook, or with a cross at the end, carried by an abbot, bishop, or archbishop as a symbol of office.
  2. Noun.  (botany) : A young fern frond, before it has unrolled; fiddlehead.

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