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Cattail

//ˈkæt.teɪl// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several perennial herbs, of the genus Typha, that have long flat leaves, and grow in marshy places. US, Yorkshire
  2. 2
    tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes wordnet
  3. 3
    A cat-o'-nine-tails.

Etymology

From Middle English cattal, cattyle (also as cattestail), equivalent to cat + tail.

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