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Scorpion-grass


SCOR'PION-GRASS,

SCOR'PION'S TAIL, noun A plant of the genus Scorpiurus, with trailing herbaceous stalks, and producing a pod resembling a caterpillar, whence it is called caterpillars.

The mouse-ear scorpion-grass is of the genus Myosotis.