cat's-tail

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cat's-tail

1. (Plants) another name for reed mace ¹

2. (Botany) another name for catkin

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Noun 1. [画像:cat's-tail - tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down]cat's-tail - tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa

bullrush, bulrush, nailrod, reed mace, reedmace, Typha latifolia

cattail - tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes

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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. They are of the same kind of people that Captain Bonneville found upon Snake River, and whom he found so mild and inoffensive.

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Today, grey-green marram is the dominant plant across a large area of the Warren, where it grows alongside plants like dune pansies, sea spurge and sand cat's-tail. Waiting for dusk and ravens, there is plenty more to see at Newborough.

Darkness of January gives way to a wealth of wildlife on island; January may be best known for its dark late afternoons and short days, but it can also be a spectacular month for clear, bright skies and plenty of sunshine, too. Author Julian Rollins visits Anglesey in North Wales, where he finds a wealth of wildlife battling against the elements of winter