cat-tail
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Why, little sister," said Prudy, "I'd as soon think of wanting a gold nose as those cat-tail ear-rings.
From Little Folks Astray by May, Sophie
This is the root of a plant something like the cat-tail in looks—that is, it has the same kind of long, narrow ribbon-like leaves.
From Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Keeping Store by Rogers, Walter S.
What a pity that the world could not have the benefit of one of the pictures that West painted with his cat-tail brush.
From The Diving Bell Or, Pearls to be Sought for by Woodworth, Francis C. (Francis Channing)
She wanted some sweet-flag, but not cat-tail root, and to find out which was right she had to pull up many of the long, green streamers.
From Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Keeping Store by Rogers, Walter S.
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