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CINNAMON FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cinnamon fern mean? 

CINNAMON FERN (noun)
  The noun CINNAMON FERN has 1 sense:

1. New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edibleplay

  Familiarity information: CINNAMON FERN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CINNAMON FERN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cinnamon fern; fiddlehead; fiddlehead fern; Osmunda cinnamonea

Hypernyms ("cinnamon fern" is a kind of...):

flowering fern; osmund (any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters)


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