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The long, thin cloud which Danny knew as the cat's-tail was scudding fast in the line of their Starboard quarter.
From She's All the World to Me by Sir Hall Caine
He engaged a man, and sent him out to cut sedges and rushes and cat’s-tail and reeds.
From Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian by Various
Phleum, flē′um, n. a small genus of annual or perennial grasses—timothy, cat's-tail grass, herd's grass.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Down in the valley where there are numerous pools, not only willows and osiers grew, but here and there were to be found sedges and rushes, cat’s-tail and a species of reed.
From Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian by Various
Timothy, tim′ō-thi, n. timothy-grass, the name commonly given to Phleum pratense, a grass much valued for feeding cattle—called also Cat's-tail grass or Meadow cat's-tail.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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