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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A plant of the genus Scirpus.
  • noun The cattail reed, Typha latifolia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. See bulrush.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of several rushlike plants, of the genus Scirpus and others, including the reed mace and bulrush.

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