mousetailn.

Brit.

/ˈmaʊsteɪl/, U.S.

/ˈmaʊsˌteɪl/

Forms: see mouse n. and tail n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mouse n., tail n.¹

Etymology: < mouse n. + tail n.¹

1. The tail of a mouse.

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?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 157^v (MED) Waterlechez..ar a maner blacke wormes to þe shap of a mouse taile.

1869 Riverside Mag. 3 259 She spied Three mouse-tails a-sticking out of the cream!

1950 Science 7 Apr. 365 A 5-cu mm oxalated capillary tube is filled with blood from the mouse tail.

2000 Insight on News (Nexis) 30 Oct. 4 Vietnamese get about 14 cents for every mouse tail they turn in.

2. The plant biting stonecrop, Sedum acre. Now English regional (Somerset).

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Crassulaceae (stonecrop and allies) > [noun] > stonecrop

sengreenc1000

stonecropc1000

orpine?a1300

orval?a1300

mouse grassc1300

stonehorea1400

Crassulac1400

sedumc1440

thrift1538

prick-madam1542

mousetail1548

livelong1578

wall pepper1578

worm-grass1578

country pepper1597

jack of the buttery1597

pricket1597

stone-pepper1597

trick-madam1600

trip-madam1693

midsummer mena1697

rosewort1725

roseroot1731

live forever1760

ice plant1818

wall moss1855

Jacka1876

wall grass1882

thick-leaf1884

1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.ij The thyrd kinde is called in Englishe Mouse tayle or litle stoncroppe.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 415 Little Stonecrop..Mousetaile.

1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 735 Wee [call it] in English Prickmadam, Stonecrop or Great Stonecrop,..Stonehore and Mousetaile.

1922 A. S. Macmillan Pop. Names Flowers Somerset 199 Mouse-tail,..in some places the Biting Stonecrop, Sedum acre is known by this name.

3. A dwarf plant of seasonally wet places, Myosurus minimus (family Ranunculaceae), with single tiny yellowish-green flowers and numerous achenes in an elongating spike, which is native to Old World temperate regions and naturalized elsewhere. Also (with distinguishing word): any of several related North American species of Myosurus.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Ranunculaceae (crowfoot and allies) > [noun] > mousetail

blood-strange1578

mousetail1578

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxv. 96 Of Bloud strange or Mouse tayle... Mouse tayle [Fr. qveuë de souris] is a small low herbe, with smal leaues and very narrow.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 345 Mousetaile or Cauda muris, resembleth the last kind of wild Coronopus or sea Plantain.

1670 J. Ray Catalogus Plantarum Angliæ 218 Myosuros..Mousetail.

1789 J. Pilkington View Derbyshire I. viii. 376 Myosurus minimus. Little Mousetail.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 769/2 Myosurus minimus, or Mouse-tail,..rarely attains more than three or four inches in height.

1944 L. Abrams Illustr. Flora Pacific States II. 195 Myosaurus alopecuroides Greene. Bristly mouse-tail.

1965 Encycl. Austral. VII. 387/2 Myosurus minimus (mouse-tail) is a small ephemeral plant, widespread in northern latitudes but also indigenous to the mainland of eastern Australia.

1996 T. Rich et al. Flora Ashdown Forest 43 Mousetail is generally an annual of fertile broken ground which may be trampled and seasonally wet.

4. Any of certain other plants with a long slender inflorescence.

a. In full mousetail grass. A foxtail grass with a slender spike, esp. black grass, Alopecurus myosuroides. Also (British regional) in plural with singular agreement. Now rare.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > foxtail grass

foxtail1552

foxtail-grass1597

mousetail grass1696

black grass1733

bottle grass1813

float-fox-tails1816

1696 J. Ray Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Brit. (1724) 397 Gramen myosuroides majus... The greater Mouse-tail-Grass... Gramen myosuroides minus... The lesser Mouse-tail-Grass.

1766 Museum Rusticum 6 442 Field Fox-tail..or Mouse-tail Grass.

1792–4 T. Martyn Flora Rustica 22 Alopecurus agrestis. Field Fox-tail Grass, or Mouse-tail Grass.

1868 Galaxy June 693 The slender fox-tail, also called in some districts mouse-tail, has..a purplish colored spike.

1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Mousetails, a kind of grass, perhaps Cats'-tail, but not Myosurus.

1961 E. Salisbury Weeds & Aliens vi. 153 To its dense tapering cylindrical inflorescence, often over 2 in. long and less than ¼ in. wide, it owes the name of Mousetail Grass.

b. A fescue grass of the genus Vulpia having a narrow panicle; spec. (more fully mousetail fescue (also mousetail fescue-grass), † mousetail grass), rat's-tail fescue, V. myuros.

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1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 760/2 Mousetail, Mygalurus.

1872 J. T. B. Syme Sowerby's Eng. Bot. (ed. 3) XI. 142 Festuca Myuros Linn... Subspecies II. Festuca Pseudo-myuros, Soyer-Willemet... Mouse-tail Fescue-grass. French, Fétuque fausse queue de rat.

1880 T. R. A. Briggs Flora of Plymouth 375 F. Pseudo-myurus Soyer. Mouse-tail Fescue-Grass. Native; on wall-tops.

1890 Cent. Dict. Mousetail-grass, Festuca Myurus.

1937 A. H. Wolley-Dod Flora of Sussex 519 F. Myurus... Mouse-tail Fescue... Sandy ground, walls and waysides.

1989 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 116 271/1 Vulpia myuros... Mousetail. Rare (Water Island); mesic thickets on backslopes of stabilized dunes.

c. An orchid of the genus Dendrobium. rare.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids

satyrionOE

bollockwort?a1300

sanicle14..

bollock?a1425

martagon1548

orchis1559

dogstones1562

hare's-ballocks1562

stone1562

bollock grass1578

dog's cods1578

dog's cullions1578

double-leaf1578

fly-orchis1578

goat's cullions1578

goat's orchis1578

priest's pintle1578

twayblade1578

bee-orchis1597

bifoil1597

bird's nest1597

bird's orchis1597

butterfly orchis1597

fenny-stones1597

gelded satyrion1597

gnat satyrion1597

humble-bee orchis1597

lady's slipper1597

sweet ballocks1597

two-blade1605

cullions1611

bee-flower1626

fly-flower1640

man orchis1670

musk orchis1670

moccasin flower1680

gnat-flower1688

faham tea1728

Ophrys1754

green man orchis1762

Arethusa1764

honey flower1771

cypripedium1775

rattlesnake plantain1778

Venus's slipper1785

Adam and Eve1789

lizard orchis179.

epidendrum1791

Pogonia?1801

Vanda1801

cymbidium1815

Oncidium1822

putty-root1822

Noah's Ark1826

yellow moccasin1826

gongora1827

cattleya1828

green man1828

nervine1828

stanhopea1829

dove-flower1831

catasetum1836

Odontoglossum1836

Miltonia1837

letter plant1838

spread eagle1838

letter-leaf1839

swan-plant1841

orchid1843

disa1844

masdevallia1845

Phalaenopsis1846

faham1850

Indian crocus1850

moccasin plant1850

pleione1851

dove orchis1852

nerve root1854

Holy Ghost flower1862

basket-plant1865

lizard's tongue1866

mousetail1866

Sobralia1866

swan-neck1866

swanwort1866

Indian shoe1876

odontoglot1879

wreathewort1879

moth orchid1880

rattlesnake orchid1881

dendrobe1882

dove-plant1882

Madeira orchis1882

man orchis1882

swan-flower1884

slipper-orchid1885

slipper orchis1889

mayflower1894

scorpion orchid1897

moederkappie1910

dove orchid1918

monkey orchid1925

man orchid1927

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 760/2 Mousetail, Mygalurus; also Myosurus minimus, and Dendrobium Myosurus.

1902 T. W. Sanders Encycl. Gardening (ed. 5) 100 Dendrobium (Mouse-tail Orchid, Rock Lily)... Stove & greenhouse epiphytal evergreen & deciduous orchids.

5. In singular and plural. U.S. slang. A moustache; spec. a pencil-line moustache. Now rare.

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the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun] > moustache

mustachio1551

mustachio beard1566

moustache1585

mustachiosa1593

bigote1622

dibble1631

umbrage1657

whisker1706

lip-wing1825

facial hair1830

mousetail1853

lip-hair1873

lip-thatch1892

hackles1894

mo1894

tash1894

zit1912

mouser1922

stash1940

taz1951

stache1963

mush1967

1853 F. E. Smedley Harry Coverdale's Courtship iv, in Sharpe's London Mag. July 93/1 ‘Why the brute actually wears moustaches.’ ‘He..sports the mouse-tails on the strength of his military pretensions.’

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §121/52 Moustache,..misplaced eyebrow, mousetail, soup-strainer, [etc.].

1966 J. Stevens Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing & Wigmaking 100/2 Mouse-tail, a pencil-line thin moustache; Slang. American usage.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mousetail
释义	mousetailn. Brit. /ˈmaʊsteɪl/, U.S. /ˈmaʊsˌteɪl/ Forms: see mouse n. and tail n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mouse n., tail n.¹ Etymology: < mouse n. + tail n.¹ 1. The tail of a mouse. ΚΠ ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 157^v (MED) Waterlechez..ar a maner blacke wormes to þe shap of a mouse taile. 1869 Riverside Mag. 3 259 She spied Three mouse-tails a-sticking out of the cream! 1950 Science 7 Apr. 365 A 5-cu mm oxalated capillary tube is filled with blood from the mouse tail. 2000 Insight on News (Nexis) 30 Oct. 4 Vietnamese get about 14 cents for every mouse tail they turn in. 2. The plant biting stonecrop, Sedum acre. Now English regional (Somerset). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Crassulaceae (stonecrop and allies) > [noun] > stonecrop sengreenc1000 stonecropc1000 orpine?a1300 orval?a1300 mouse grassc1300 stonehorea1400 Crassulac1400 sedumc1440 thrift1538 prick-madam1542 mousetail1548 livelong1578 wall pepper1578 worm-grass1578 country pepper1597 jack of the buttery1597 pricket1597 stone-pepper1597 trick-madam1600 trip-madam1693 midsummer mena1697 rosewort1725 roseroot1731 live forever1760 ice plant1818 wall moss1855 Jacka1876 wall grass1882 thick-leaf1884 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.ij The thyrd kinde is called in Englishe Mouse tayle or litle stoncroppe. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 415 Little Stonecrop..Mousetaile. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 735 Wee [call it] in English Prickmadam, Stonecrop or Great Stonecrop,..Stonehore and Mousetaile. 1922 A. S. Macmillan Pop. Names Flowers Somerset 199 Mouse-tail,..in some places the Biting Stonecrop, Sedum acre is known by this name. 3. A dwarf plant of seasonally wet places, Myosurus minimus (family Ranunculaceae), with single tiny yellowish-green flowers and numerous achenes in an elongating spike, which is native to Old World temperate regions and naturalized elsewhere. Also (with distinguishing word): any of several related North American species of Myosurus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Ranunculaceae (crowfoot and allies) > [noun] > mousetail blood-strange1578 mousetail1578 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxv. 96 Of Bloud strange or Mouse tayle... Mouse tayle [Fr. qveuë de souris] is a small low herbe, with smal leaues and very narrow. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 345 Mousetaile or Cauda muris, resembleth the last kind of wild Coronopus or sea Plantain. 1670 J. Ray Catalogus Plantarum Angliæ 218 Myosuros..Mousetail. 1789 J. Pilkington View Derbyshire I. viii. 376 Myosurus minimus. Little Mousetail. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 769/2 Myosurus minimus, or Mouse-tail,..rarely attains more than three or four inches in height. 1944 L. Abrams Illustr. Flora Pacific States II. 195 Myosaurus alopecuroides Greene. Bristly mouse-tail. 1965 Encycl. Austral. VII. 387/2 Myosurus minimus (mouse-tail) is a small ephemeral plant, widespread in northern latitudes but also indigenous to the mainland of eastern Australia. 1996 T. Rich et al. Flora Ashdown Forest 43 Mousetail is generally an annual of fertile broken ground which may be trampled and seasonally wet. 4. Any of certain other plants with a long slender inflorescence. a. In full mousetail grass. A foxtail grass with a slender spike, esp. black grass, Alopecurus myosuroides. Also (British regional) in plural with singular agreement. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > foxtail grass foxtail1552 foxtail-grass1597 mousetail grass1696 black grass1733 bottle grass1813 float-fox-tails1816 1696 J. Ray Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Brit. (1724) 397 Gramen myosuroides majus... The greater Mouse-tail-Grass... Gramen myosuroides minus... The lesser Mouse-tail-Grass. 1766 Museum Rusticum 6 442 Field Fox-tail..or Mouse-tail Grass. 1792–4 T. Martyn Flora Rustica 22 Alopecurus agrestis. Field Fox-tail Grass, or Mouse-tail Grass. 1868 Galaxy June 693 The slender fox-tail, also called in some districts mouse-tail, has..a purplish colored spike. 1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Mousetails, a kind of grass, perhaps Cats'-tail, but not Myosurus. 1961 E. Salisbury Weeds & Aliens vi. 153 To its dense tapering cylindrical inflorescence, often over 2 in. long and less than ¼ in. wide, it owes the name of Mousetail Grass. b. A fescue grass of the genus Vulpia having a narrow panicle; spec. (more fully mousetail fescue (also mousetail fescue-grass), † mousetail grass), rat's-tail fescue, V. myuros. ΚΠ 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 760/2 Mousetail, Mygalurus. 1872 J. T. B. Syme Sowerby's Eng. Bot. (ed. 3) XI. 142 Festuca Myuros Linn... Subspecies II. Festuca Pseudo-myuros, Soyer-Willemet... Mouse-tail Fescue-grass. French, Fétuque fausse queue de rat. 1880 T. R. A. Briggs Flora of Plymouth 375 F. Pseudo-myurus Soyer. Mouse-tail Fescue-Grass. Native; on wall-tops. 1890 Cent. Dict. Mousetail-grass, Festuca Myurus. 1937 A. H. Wolley-Dod Flora of Sussex 519 F. Myurus... Mouse-tail Fescue... Sandy ground, walls and waysides. 1989 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 116 271/1 Vulpia myuros... Mousetail. Rare (Water Island); mesic thickets on backslopes of stabilized dunes. c. An orchid of the genus Dendrobium. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids satyrionOE bollockwort?a1300 sanicle14.. bollock?a1425 martagon1548 orchis1559 dogstones1562 hare's-ballocks1562 stone1562 bollock grass1578 dog's cods1578 dog's cullions1578 double-leaf1578 fly-orchis1578 goat's cullions1578 goat's orchis1578 priest's pintle1578 twayblade1578 bee-orchis1597 bifoil1597 bird's nest1597 bird's orchis1597 butterfly orchis1597 fenny-stones1597 gelded satyrion1597 gnat satyrion1597 humble-bee orchis1597 lady's slipper1597 sweet ballocks1597 two-blade1605 cullions1611 bee-flower1626 fly-flower1640 man orchis1670 musk orchis1670 moccasin flower1680 gnat-flower1688 faham tea1728 Ophrys1754 green man orchis1762 Arethusa1764 honey flower1771 cypripedium1775 rattlesnake plantain1778 Venus's slipper1785 Adam and Eve1789 lizard orchis179. epidendrum1791 Pogonia?1801 Vanda1801 cymbidium1815 Oncidium1822 putty-root1822 Noah's Ark1826 yellow moccasin1826 gongora1827 cattleya1828 green man1828 nervine1828 stanhopea1829 dove-flower1831 catasetum1836 Odontoglossum1836 Miltonia1837 letter plant1838 spread eagle1838 letter-leaf1839 swan-plant1841 orchid1843 disa1844 masdevallia1845 Phalaenopsis1846 faham1850 Indian crocus1850 moccasin plant1850 pleione1851 dove orchis1852 nerve root1854 Holy Ghost flower1862 basket-plant1865 lizard's tongue1866 mousetail1866 Sobralia1866 swan-neck1866 swanwort1866 Indian shoe1876 odontoglot1879 wreathewort1879 moth orchid1880 rattlesnake orchid1881 dendrobe1882 dove-plant1882 Madeira orchis1882 man orchis1882 swan-flower1884 slipper-orchid1885 slipper orchis1889 mayflower1894 scorpion orchid1897 moederkappie1910 dove orchid1918 monkey orchid1925 man orchid1927 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 760/2 Mousetail, Mygalurus; also Myosurus minimus, and Dendrobium Myosurus. 1902 T. W. Sanders Encycl. Gardening (ed. 5) 100 Dendrobium (Mouse-tail Orchid, Rock Lily)... Stove & greenhouse epiphytal evergreen & deciduous orchids. 5. In singular and plural. U.S. slang. A moustache; spec. a pencil-line moustache. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun] > moustache mustachio1551 mustachio beard1566 moustache1585 mustachiosa1593 bigote1622 dibble1631 umbrage1657 whisker1706 lip-wing1825 facial hair1830 mousetail1853 lip-hair1873 lip-thatch1892 hackles1894 mo1894 tash1894 zit1912 mouser1922 stash1940 taz1951 stache1963 mush1967 1853 F. E. Smedley Harry Coverdale's Courtship iv, in Sharpe's London Mag. July 93/1 ‘Why the brute actually wears moustaches.’ ‘He..sports the mouse-tails on the strength of his military pretensions.’ 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §121/52 Moustache,..misplaced eyebrow, mousetail, soup-strainer, [etc.]. 1966 J. Stevens Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing & Wigmaking 100/2 Mouse-tail, a pencil-line thin moustache; Slang. American usage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425
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