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Noun: cinnamon fern  si-nu-mun furn
  1. New World fern having woolly cinnamon-coloured spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
    - fiddlehead, fiddlehead fern, Osmunda cinnamonea

Derived forms: cinnamon ferns

Type of: flowering fern, osmund

Encyclopedia: Cinnamon fern