Tape n.
 1. A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.
 2. A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a tapeline; as, a steel tape.
 Red tape. See under Red.
 Tape grass Bot., a plant (Vallisneria spiralis) with long ribbonlike leaves, growing in fresh or brackish water; -- called also fresh-water eelgrass, and, in Maryland, wild celery.
 Tape needle.  See Bodkin, n., 4.


 Vallisneria spiralis
      n : submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World
          and Australia [syn: tape grass, eelgrass, {wild
          celery]