Etymology

catstail

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Middle English cattestail
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromcattestail
  2. English todaycatstail

From Middle English cattestail, equivalent to cat + -s- + tail.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.