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.' name='description'> lizard's tail - definition and meaning

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  • noun (Bot.) 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.

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  • noun Houttuynia cordata, a flowering plant.

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  • noun North American herbaceous perennial of wet places having slender curled racemes of small white flowers

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