Definitions for cattail

cattail cat·tail

Spelling: [kat-teyl]
IPA: /ˈkætˌteɪl/

Cattail is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in cattail (aaciltt).

Definitions for cattail

noun

  1. any tall, reedlike marsh plant of the genus Typha, especially T. latifolia, having long, sword-shaped leaves and dense, cylindrical clusters of minute brown flowers.

Origin of cattail

First recorded in 1425-75, cattail is from the late Middle English word cattestail. See cat, tail1

Examples for cattail

Only starving people tried to make food from cattail seeds and the inner bark of slippery elm and willow trees.

They may have been saying: "Already the boys are shouting, The cattail is in bloom!"

Nests are placed on the ground surface, in cover of grasses, cattail and sedges.

Nests are made of marsh vegetation (arrowhead, cattail) and float on water.

In her hand was a brown "cattail," perfectly full and round.

She ran from the tussock and flew a short distance away to a cattail stem.

Inside is a warm, soft bed made of milkweed or cattail down, the very nicest kind of a bed for the babies.

Perched upon a swaying last year's cattail, Mr. Red-winged Blackbird shook his head in reply.

At this point, Marcus noticed a brown something bearing a strong resemblance to the swamp stalk, known among boys as the cattail.

There was also much of the wild flax, of which we now obtained some ripe seed, as well as some bullrush and cattail flag.

Word Value for cattail
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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