cinnamon fern

American  

noun

1. a common coarse fern, Osmunda cinnamomea, having rusty-woolly stalks, growing in wet, low woods or thickets.

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Etymology

Origin of cinnamon fern

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

A: I would consider some robust ferns such as ostrich, royal or cinnamon fern — a lot of them — as well as hardy and swamp hibiscus.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2021

Absently her gaze sought for cinnamon fern in low woods, sweet fern in the thickets, and exquisite maidenhair just beginning to uncurl from the black leaf mould of dripping brakes.

From Judith of the Cumberlands by MacGowan, Alice

Here the cinnamon fern grows luxuriantly, while a few swamp maple saplings and mountain ash trees occur at intervals, and afford sufficient food to the moose.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles

That night I dream that I am in a pasture looking for fertile fronds of the cinnamon fern which I fail to find.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

A frequent method is by perennial rootstocks, which often creep beneath the surface, sending up, it may be, single fronds, as in the common bracken, or graceful leaf-crowns, as in the cinnamon fern.

From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by Tilton, George Henry