Noun
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New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds
the early uncurling fronds are edible
- cinnamon fern - fiddlehead fern - osmunda cinnamonea -
tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
- ostrich fern - shuttlecock fern - matteuccia struthiopteris - pteretis struthiopteris - onoclea struthiopteris