Noun: fiddlehead fern
- 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 fiddlehead ferns before they unfurled";
- cinnamon fern, fiddlehead, Osmunda cinnamonea
Derived forms: fiddlehead ferns
Type of: flowering fern, osmund
Encyclopedia: Fiddlehead fern