prince's-feather

Questions about prince's-feather

What does prince's-feather mean?

prince's-feather means "annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prince's-feather?

prince's-feather has 5 syllables and divides as prin-ce's--fe-a-ther under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for prince's-feather?

Close synonyms include princess feather, kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate, prince's-plume, Polygonum orientale, gentleman's-cane. 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's-feather a common word?

prince's-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.