Noun: cinnamon fern si-nu-mun furn
- New World fern having woolly cinnamon-coloured spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
"They harvested the young cinnamon ferns before they unfurled";
- fiddlehead, fiddlehead fern, Osmunda cinnamonea
Derived forms: cinnamon ferns
Type of: flowering fern, osmund
Encyclopedia: Cinnamon fern