‖ Typha Bot.
(ˈtaɪfə)
[mod.L., f. Gr. τύϕη cat's-tail.]
A genus of aquatic herbs (type of the N.O. Typhaceæ), containing the common cat's-tail or reed-mace (T. latifolia).
| 1548 Turner Names of Herbes (E.D.S.) 79 Typha groweth in fennes and water sydes among the reedes... It is called in englishe cattes tayle, or a Reedmace. 1796 H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) II. 143 The water-lentil of our marshes, as well as the typha of our rivers, has the middle of it's leaf swelled. 1838 M. Howitt Birds & Fl., Lit. Streams 23 Typha strong, and green bur-reed. 1861 Bentley Man. Bot. 688 The pollen of some species of Typha is edible. |