mousetail

Definitions

noun A plant of the genus Myosurus, especially M. minimus: so named from the shape of the elongated fruiting receptacle.

noun (Bot.) A genus of ranunculaceous plants (Myosurus), in which the prolonged receptacle is covered with imbricating achenes, and so resembles the tail of a mouse.

mouse +‎ tail

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The wetter and more flooded the corrals, the better the mousetail liked it.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
The wetter and more flooded the corrals, the better the mousetail liked it.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
The under part of the bulb is singularly depressed: from this depression issues a small, mousetail-like root.

The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Fearing Burr
Of and about the animal kingdom are: deer and camel grass, elephant and tiger grass, kangaroo grass, fox and dog grass, cattail, rattail, mouse and mousetail grass, and, just for luck, rabbit foot.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 1 1976
In April one year Stephen Waters, the camp’s resident expert on mosses and liverworts, discovered large quantities of mousetail, Myosurus minimus, the smallest member of the buttercup family, growing in the corrals.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
In April one year Stephen Waters, the camp’s resident expert on mosses and liverworts, discovered large quantities of mousetail, Myosurus minimus, the smallest member of the buttercup family, growing in the corrals.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009