| cinnamon fern 
 
 New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds;
 the early uncurling fronds are edible
 • Syn:
 fiddlehead, fiddlehead fern, Osmunda cinnamonea
 • Hypernyms:
 flowering fern, osmund
 
 
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