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CATTAIL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes
Classified under:
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)
