cat's-tail

What does cat's-tail mean?

cat's-tail means "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".

How many syllables are in cat's-tail?

cat's-tail has 2 syllables and divides as cat'-s-tail under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cat's-tail?

Close synonyms include bullrush, bulrush, nailrod, reed mace, reedmace. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cat's-tail a common word?

cat's-tail is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cat's-tail come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.