cat-tail

British  

noun

1. another word for bulrush

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Example Sentences

Redlands business Precious Creature initially only offered full-body taxidermy of pets until customers started suggesting other ideas, such as lockets containing patches of fur and cat-tail necklaces.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025

And he stretched himself, and buried his head in his bed of cat-tail down, because the daylight was trickling in through his doorway.

From The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse by Petersen, Diane

Afterwards it was a standing pond; then a morass, with cat-tail flags growing in it.

From Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

And he knew that if the weather happened to be chilly now and then, he could snuggle into the cat-tail down and sleep as comfortably as he pleased.

From The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse by Petersen, Diane

And, looking at him, he said, "No club can kill me; nothing but a bulrush or cat-tail can take my life."

From Algonquin Legends of New England by Leland, Charles Godfrey