Definition of cat's tail in English:
cat's tail
(also cattail)
noun
A plant with long, thin parts suggestive of cats' tails.
(also 'cat's-tail grass') timothy grass.
the reed mace.
- Plants like cattails, bulrushes, jewelweed, and the lovely cardinal flower do best with alternating wet and dry periods, and survive flooding as long as most of the leaves are out of the water.
- The nest was surrounded by cattails and was constructed of year-old cattail leaves and stems.
- Water plants abound, including a cattail, a realistic palm tree, and other vegetation.
- Like beavers, muskrats build lodges out of sticks, twigs, cattails and bulrushes, reinforcing them with mud.
- As mentioned earlier, large areas of cattails and other aquatic plants also will encourage muskrat activity.
- The herbaceous vegetation would have been rich and diverse, including, for example, cattail, buttonbush, numerous sedges, grasses and rushes, and bushy willows and alder.
- And, if you plant local aquatic species (such as the common cattail or sweet flag) in a drainage ditch or under a downspout, they act as a natural filter for pesticides in the water.
- It gives good control of cattails and other emergent aquatic plants as well as woody plants growing on the shorelines.
- By repeatedly removing the leaves on cattail plants, the food supply in the underground tuber will be depleted and the plant will eventually die.
- The lowland is lush with cattails and willows, and an osprey nest suggests the presence of trout.