prince-of-wales feather

Questions about prince-of-wales feather

What does prince-of-wales feather mean?

prince-of-wales feather means "New Zealand with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks; sometimes included in genus Todea".

What is another word for prince-of-wales feather?

Close synonyms include crape fern, Prince-of-Wales fern, 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 prince-of-wales feather a common word?

prince-of-wales feather 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.