prince-of-wales plume

Questions about prince-of-wales plume

What does prince-of-wales plume mean?

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

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

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

prince-of-wales plume 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.