Noun | 1. | crape fern - New Zealand with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks; sometimes included in genus Todea Leptopteris superba, Prince-of-Wales feather, Prince-of-Wales fern, Prince-of-Wales plume, Todea superba fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores genus Leptopteris, Leptopteris - including some ferns sometimes placed in genus Todea |