Cattail.
(Der. of sword).
1. f. Bell of single-wall, in which they are open the holes to place the bells.
2. f. herbaceous plant, the family of the Tifáceas, meter and a half to two meters in height, with leaves in the form of sword, the long-stemmed, by way of Reed, with a cylindrical COB at the end, that after almost dry drop some kind of lint or hair white, light and very sticky. Its leaves are used as the anea.