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

This is the root of a plant something like the cat-tail in looks—that is, it has the same kind of long, narrow ribbon-like leaves.

From Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Keeping Store by Rogers, Walter S.

She wanted some sweet-flag, but not cat-tail root, and to find out which was right she had to pull up many of the long, green streamers.

From Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Keeping Store by Rogers, Walter S.

The bed was made of poles, with strips of bark in place of bedcords, the mattress was of husks and the pillows of cat-tail down.

From Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History by Morris, Lucy Leavenworth Wilder

“First please extinguish those cat-tail torches,” requested Harriet.

From The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country The Young Pathfinders on a Summer Hike by Aldridge, Janet