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PRINCESS FEATHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does princess feather mean? 

PRINCESS FEATHER (noun)
  The noun PRINCESS FEATHER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PRINCESS FEATHER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PRINCESS FEATHER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate; Polygonum orientale; prince's-feather; prince's-plume; princess feather

Hypernyms ("princess feather" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Holonyms ("princess feather" is a member of...):

genus Polygonum; Polygonum (diverse genus of herbs or woody subshrubs of north temperate regions)


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