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

Of a like nature are fruits of thistles, fireweed, prickly lettuce, sow thistles, scabiosa, valerian, cat-tail flag, cotton grass, some anemones, smoke tree, virgin's bower, and some of the grasses.

From Seed Dispersal by Beal, W. J. (William James)

I got up from my seat to see if I could find the speakers; and sure enough, there on one of the cat-tail bulrushes, I spied two tiny pale-green creatures.

From What Katy Did by Coolidge, Susan

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)

Then the Black Cat, who knew where to get one, galloped off to a swamp, and, having got a large cat-tail, came to the Coon and hit him hard with it.

From Algonquin Legends of New England by Leland, Charles Godfrey