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

Burns.—A correspondent of the Philadelphia Record vouches for the wonderful efficacy of the common cat-tail as a remedy for burns.

From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by McCarty, Louis Philippe

And he, being determined to give the elder no time, answered truly and fearlessly, "I can only be slain by the stroke of a cat-tail or bulrush."

From Algonquin Legends of New England by Leland, Charles Godfrey

What a pity that the world could not have the benefit of one of the pictures that West painted with his cat-tail brush.

From The Diving Bell Or, Pearls to be Sought for by Woodworth, Francis C. (Francis Channing)

Then the Black Cat, who knew where to get one, galloped off to a swamp, and, having got a large cat-tail, came to the Coon and hit him hard with it.

From Algonquin Legends of New England by Leland, Charles Godfrey