mares-tail
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mare's′-tail`
n.
1. a long narrow cirrus cloud with a flowing appearance.
2. an erect aquatic Old World plant, Hippuris vulgaris, of the family Hippuridaceae, with crowded whorls of narrow hairlike leaves.
[1755–65]
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