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Buttercup family plant with threadlike leaves resembling a rodent's appendage
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mousetail
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Word definitions for mousetail in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mousetail \Mouse"tail`\, n. (Bot.) A genus of ranunculaceous plants ( Myosurus ), in which the prolonged receptacle is covered with imbricating achenes, and so resembles the tail of a mouse.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mousetail is used as a common name for species of plants in several genera: Ivesia in the rose family Myosurus in the buttercup family :* Myosurus apetalus , bristly mousetail, native to western North and South America :* Myosurus cupulatus , Arizona mousetail, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context botany English) Any plant of the genus (taxlink Ivesia genus noshow=1), in the rose family. 2 (context botany English) Any plant of the genus (taxlink Myosurus genus noshow=1), in the buttercup family.
Usage examples of mousetail.
Another mousetail, just escaping his blade to leap deeper into the wheat.