Etymology

kittentails

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Today it means: A herbaceous perennial in the subgenus Synthyris within the genus Veronica Full definition →

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The story

Named for the flower spikes' supposed resemblance to the tail of a small cat.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.