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PRINCE-OF-WALES FEATHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Prince-of-Wales feather mean? 

PRINCE-OF-WALES FEATHER (noun)
  The noun PRINCE-OF-WALES FEATHER has 1 sense:

1. New Zealand with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks; sometimes included in genus Todeaplay

  Familiarity information: PRINCE-OF-WALES FEATHER used as a noun is very rare.


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PRINCE-OF-WALES FEATHER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

New Zealand with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks; sometimes included in genus Todea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

crape fern; Leptopteris superba; Prince-of-Wales feather; Prince-of-Wales fern; Prince-of-Wales plume; Todea superba

Hypernyms ("Prince-of-Wales feather" is a kind of...):

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Holonyms ("Prince-of-Wales feather" is a member of...):

genus Leptopteris; Leptopteris (including some ferns sometimes placed in genus Todea)


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