kangaroo's paw

Questions about kangaroo's paw

What does kangaroo's paw mean?

kangaroo's paw means "sedgelike spring-flowering herb having clustered flowers covered with woolly hairs; Australia".

What is another word for kangaroo's paw?

Close synonyms include kangaroo paw, kangaroo's-foot, kangaroo-foot plant, Australian sword lily, Anigozanthus manglesii. 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 kangaroo's paw a common word?

kangaroo's paw 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.