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ˈmousetail
[f. mouse n. + tail n.1]
†1. The stonecrop, Sedum acre. Obs.
1548Turner Names of Herbes, Sedum, The thyrd kinde is called in Englishe Mouse tayle or little stoncroppe. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cxxxvii. 415 Stonecrop..Mousetaile. 1611Cotgr. Pain d'oiseau, Stonecrop,..Mousetaile.
2. A plant of the genus Myosurus, esp. M. minimus, from the shape of its seed receptacle.
1578Lyte Dodoens i. lxv. 96 Of Bloud strange or Mouse tayle. Mouse tayle is a small low herbe, with small leaues and very narrow [etc.]. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. xcv. 345 Mousetaile or Cauda muris, resembleth the last kind of wild Coronopus or sea Plantain. 1789J. Pilkington View Derbysh. I. 376 Myosurus minimus. Little Mousetail. 1866Treas. Bot. 769/2 Myosurus minimus, or Mouse-tail,..rarely attains more than three or four inches in height.
3. Applied to other plants, as (a) Alopecurus agrestis (cf. 5); (b) the genus Mygalurus; (c) the orchid Dendrobium Myosurus.
1866Treas. Bot., Mousetail, Mygalurus; also Myosurus minimus, and Dendrobium Myosurus. 1893Wiltsh. Gloss., Mousetails, a kind of grass, perhaps Cats'-tail, but not Myosurus.
4. pl. Moustaches. jocular.
1855Smedley H. Coverdale iv, ‘Why the brute actually wears moustaches.’ ‘He..sports the mouse-tails on the strength of his military pretensions.’
5. attrib.: mousetail grass, (a) one of the foxtail grasses, Alopecurus agrestis; (b) a fescue grass, Festuca Myurus (Cent. Dict. 1890).
1696Ray Synopsis Meth. Stirp. (1724) 397 Gramen myosuroides majus... The greater Mouse-tail-Grass... Gramen myosuroides minus... The lesser Mouse-tail-Grass. 1766Museum Rust. VI. 442 Field Fox-tail..or Mouse-tail Grass. 1792–4Martyn Flora Rustica 22 Alopecurus agrestis. Field Fox-tail Grass, or Mouse-tail Grass. |