What is "cattails"

Usage examples of "cattails".

No fish were to be found in the temporary bodies of water, unless they happened to become part of a year-round river or stream, but amid the roots of tall phragmite reeds, bulrushes, sedges, and cattails swam the tadpoles of edible frogs and fire-bellied toads.

Stopped beside a stand of tall grass and cattails, which bent in the scorching breeze.

When she looked back toward the water she noticed the sedge and cattails and wild rice plants were still bending, waving, rustling.

Around the edges of the bog were a few plants that looked like cattails, and in the center of the bog was a blackened tree trunk surrounded by brackish scum.

In the misty darkness, Alain discerned the shapes of the tall cattails, silhouetted near the bank where the weeping willow bent its long, lamenting branches toward the murky water.

Somewhere in the abundant crop of spiky cattails emerging near the bank, a bullfrog croaked out his low-pitched song.

Thousands of cattails waved at him, poking up out of the tall, honeycolored grass.

Behind them, beyond the cattails and tall grass, she could see the black waters of the river churning with motion.

As she walked into the darkness, she noticed that even the cattails and grass disappeared.

About forty miles west there was a slough from which the trains pumped water, but there was nothing there, nothing at all but the water and the cattails that surrounded it.

The cattails provided more than an old-growth woody stalk for a fire drill.

The hard fibrous old roots of cattails had been crushed and the fibers separated and removed.