noun
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
Useful english dictionary. 2012.