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lizard's tail
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lizard's tail, n.
A perennial plant of the genus Saururus (Saururus cernuus ), growing in marshes, and having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name. Gray. [1913 Webster]
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