crape fern

Questions about crape fern

What does crape fern mean?

crape fern means "New Zealand with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks; sometimes included in genus Todea".

What is another word for crape fern?

Close synonyms include Prince-of-Wales fern, Prince-of-Wales feather, Prince-of-Wales plume, Leptopteris superba, Todea superba. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crape fern a common word?

crape fern is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.