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 Wa·ter torch Bot. The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil.
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 Bul·rush n.  Bot. A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water.
 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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 cat·tail, Cat-tail 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.
 Note: ☞ The lesser cat-tail is Typha angustifolia.
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 Flag, n.  Bot. An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus.
 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 Flag broom, a coarse of broom, originally made of flags or rushes.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.

 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]