cat's-tail

noun

1. another name for reed mace

2. another name for catkin

Example Sentences

The long, thin cloud which Danny knew as the cat's-tail was scudding fast in the line of their Starboard quarter.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

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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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