Found 2 items, similar to Typha latifolia.
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Definition: Typha latifolia
Typha latifolia
n : 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 [syn:
cat's-tail,
bullrush,
bulrush,
nailrod,
reed mace,
reedmace]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Typha latifolia
Water torch
\Wa"ter torch`\ (Bot.)
The common cat-tail (
Typha latifolia), the spike of which
makes a good torch soaked in oil. --Dr. Prior.
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Bulrush
\Bul"rush`\ (b[.u]l"r[u^]sh`), n. [OE. bulrysche,
bolroysche; of uncertain origin, perh. fr. bole stem + rush.]
(Bot.)
A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water.
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Note: The name bulrush is applied in England especially to
the cat-tail (
Typha latifolia and
Typha angustifolia
) and to the lake club-rush (
Scirpus lacustris
); in America, to the
Juncus effusus, and
also to species of
Scirpus or club-rush.
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cattail
\cat"tail\, Cat-tail
\Cat"-tail\(k[a^]t"t[=a]l), n.
(Bot.)
A tall erect rush or flag (
Typha latifolia) growing widely
in fresh and salt marshes, with long, flat, sword-shaped
leaves, having clusters of small brown flowers in a dense
cylindrical spike at the top of the stem; -- called also
bulrush and
reed mace. The leaves are frequently used for
seating chairs, making mats, etc. See
Catkin.
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Note: The
lesser cat-tail is
Typha angustifolia.
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Flag
\Flag\, n. [From
Flag to hang loose, to bend down.]
(Bot.)
An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to
either of the genera
Iris and
Acorus.
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Cooper's flag, the cat-tail (
Typha latifolia), the long
leaves of which are placed between the staves of barrels
to make the latter water-tight.
Corn flag. See under 2d
Corn.
Flag broom, a coarse of broom, originally made of flags or
rushes.
Flag root, the root of the sweet flag.
Sweet flag. See
Calamus, n., 2.
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