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Noun prince's-feather has 2 senses
- prince's-feather, princess feather, kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate, prince's-plume, Polygonum orientale - annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America
--1 is a kind of subshrub, suffrutex
--1 is a member of Polygonum, genus Polygonum
- prince's-feather, gentleman's-cane, prince's-plume, red amaranth, purple amaranth, Amaranthus cruentus, Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys - tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple; seeds often used as cereal
--2 is a kind of amaranth
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