(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:55:27

Liz"ard's tail` (?). Bot.

A perennial plant of the genus Saururus (S. 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.

 

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