reed mace

noun

cattail.

Origin of reed mace

First recorded in 1540–50

Words nearby reed mace

reed, reed bunting, reed canary grass, reed grass, reed instrument, reed mace, reed organ, reed pipe, reed stop, reed warbler, reed-sternberg cell

Example sentences from the Web for reed mace

  • It feeds in July and August in stems of bur-reed (Sparganium), reed-mace, and yellow flag.

    The Moths of the British Isles, First Series |Richard South

  • And he nodded in the direction of a patch of the tall, brown, poker-like flowers and leaves of the reed-mace.

    Dick o' the Fens |George Manville Fenn

British Dictionary definitions for reed mace

reed mace

noun

Also called: (popularly) bulrush, false bulrush, cat's-tail a tall reedlike marsh plant, Typha latifolia, with straplike leaves and flowers in long brown sausage-shaped spikes: family Typhaceae See also bulrush (def. 2)
a related and similar plant, Typha angustifolia