Definition of "cat's-tail" []

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Use "cat's-tail" in a sentence

"A few of the streams were full of the fine plant which is popularly known by the name of bull-rush, or bulrush (_Typha latifólia_), but which ought by rights to be called the "cat's-tail" or "reed-mace.""
"Everything was doing well; but it had been a late spring that year, and the cat's-tail was barely forming as yet, while the clover had just begun to show bloom."
"Their lives are passed in the great sand plains and along the adjacent rivers; they subsist sometimes on fish, at other times on roots and the seeds of a plant, called the cat's-tail."

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