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How to pronounce cattail in English?

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Type Words
Type of bog plant, marsh plant, swamp plant
Has types cat's-tail, lesser bullrush, nailrod, narrow-leaf cattail, narrow-leaved reedmace, reed mace, reedmace, soft flag, typha latifolia, bullrush, bulrush, typha angustifolia

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Here's a phallic skyscraper, never built, that bends like a cattail in the wind.
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I was particularly interested in seeing what birds were using the cattail marsh.
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Cattail marshes can attract red-winged blackbirds by the dozens, even the hundreds.
From the thenewstribune.com
Cattail Creek must be a superior place for a baby sheep to be slaughtered, we think.
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At more than 32,000 acres, Horicon Marsh is the nation's largest freshwater cattail marsh.
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It blends in well with the brown of the cattail and bulrush that has not yet greened up.
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Carl Grover checks to make sure cattail roots are dead in a dry marsh.
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At mid-morning the hunter to our east hits a duck that drops and swims into a cattail point.
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Before we leave, Kakatsch motors over to the far cattail point.
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  • Tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes
  • Typha is a genus of about eleven species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the monogeneric family Typhaceae. The genus has a largely Northern Hemisphere distribution, but is essentially cosmopolitan, being found in a variety of wetland habitats. ...
  • Any of several perennial herbs, of the genus Typha, that have long flat leaves, and grow in marshy places