cattail

English

a cattail

Etymology

From Middle English cattal, cattyle (also as cattestail), equivalent to cat +‎ tail.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæt.teɪl/ A rare example of gemination in English.
• Rhymes: -æteɪl

Pronunciation

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Noun

cattail (plural cattails)

1. (US; Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, historical) Any of several perennial herbs, of the genus Typha, that have long flat leaves, and grow in marshy places.
2. A cat-o'-nine-tails.

Synonyms

• (herb in Typha): bulrush, reedmace

Derived terms

• broadleaf cattail (Typha latifolia)
• Cape cattail (Typha capensis)
• Caspian cattail (Typha caspica)
• cattail borer moth (Bellura obliqua)
• cattail caterpillar (Acronicta insularis)
• cattail conehead (Bucrates malivolans)
• cattail flash-train firefly (Photinus consimilis)
• cattail grass (Setaria pumila)
• cattail gayfeather (Liatris pycnostachya var. lasiophylla(
• cattail-leaved lepironia (Lepironia articulata)
• cattail millet (Cenchrus americanus)
• cattail mosquito (Coquillettidia perturbans)
• cattail moth (Ctenucha vittigera)
• cattail sedge (Carex typhina)
• cattail toothpick grasshopper (Leptysma marginicollis)
• cattail wren (Cistothorus palustris)
• dwarf cattail (Typha minima)
• golden cattail sedge (Carex aureolensis)
• graceful cattail (Typha laxmannii)
• narrow-leaved cattail (Typha angustifolia)
• narrow-leaved cattail Diver Moth (Bellura brehmei)
• oriental cattail (Typha orientalis)
• Shuttleworth's cattail (Typha shuttleworthii)
• southern cattail (Typha domingensis)

Translations

any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha

• Arabic: بُرْدِيّ m (burdiyy)
• Bashkir: ҡамыш (qamış)
• Basque: lezka
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: bova (ca) f, balca (ca) f
• Czech: orobinec m
• Dutch: lisdodde (nl) f, kodde (nl) f
• Esperanto: tifao
• Estonian: hundinui (et)
• Faroese: dúnkylva f
• Finnish: osmankäämi (fi)
• French: massette (fr) f, quenouille (fr) f
• Galician: espadana f
• German: Rohrkolben (de) m, Kolbenschilf m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: τύφη f (túphē)

• Hebrew: סוּף (he) m (suf)
• Hungarian: gyékény (hu)
• Irish: coigeal f
• Italian: stiancia (it) f, tifa (it) f
• Japanese: 蒲 (ja) (gama)
• Kalmyk: зегсн (zegsn)
• Klamath-Modoc: popas
• Korean: 부들 (ko) (budeul)
• Latin: buda f, ulva f
• Lushootseed: ʔulal
• Navajo: teeł
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dunkjevle (no) m or n

  Nynorsk: dunkjevle m

• Polish: pałka (pl) f
• Portuguese: tifa f
• Romanian: papură (ro) f
• Russian: рого́з (ru) m (rogóz)
• Serbo-Croatian: rogoz (sh) m
• Slovak: pálka f
• Spanish: espadaña (es) f
• Swedish: kaveldun (sv) n
• Turkish: hasır otu (tr)
• Welsh: cynffon y gath f
• Winnebago: wiicihu

See also

• catstail

References

• “cattail”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• cattail on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Typha on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Typha on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

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