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OSMUNDA CINNAMONEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Osmunda cinnamonea mean?
• OSMUNDA CINNAMONEA (noun)
The noun OSMUNDA CINNAMONEA 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 edible
Familiarity information: OSMUNDA CINNAMONEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("Osmunda cinnamonea" 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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