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CATTAIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cattail mean? 

CATTAIL (noun)
  The noun CATTAIL has 1 sense:

1. tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshesplay

  Familiarity information: CATTAIL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CATTAIL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cattail" is a kind of...):

bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cattail"):

bullrush; bulrush; cat's-tail; nailrod; reed mace; reedmace; Typha latifolia (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)

lesser bullrush; narrow-leaf cattail; narrow-leaved reedmace; soft flag; Typha angustifolia (reed maces of America, Europe, North Africa, Asia)

Holonyms ("cattail" is a member of...):

genus Typha; Typha (reed maces; cattails)


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