princess feather

1. 1.

   annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America

   Synonymsprince's-featherkiss-me-over-the-garden-gateprince's-plumePolygonum orientale

   Broadersubshrub

   Part ofPolygonum

Questions about princess feather

What does princess feather mean?

princess feather means "annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America".

What is another word for princess feather?

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

princess 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.