Crossword-Solution: MARESTAIL 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Close by was a peaceful-looking river, flowing between green banks fringed with willow and marestail and pink river-herb.

The wildest streaks of marestail clouds in the sky, or the most irregular heavenly nebulae, have surely just as much form as a geometrical tetrahedron; and as for "void," how can that be void which is full of matter? As poetry, these lines are vivid and admirable; as a scientific statement, which they must be taken to be if any one is justified in comparing them with another scientific statement, they fail to convey any intelligible conception to my mind.

The wildest streaks of marestail clouds in the sky, or the most irregular heavenly nebulæ, have surely just as much form as a geometrical tetrahedron; and as for "void," how can that be void which is full of matter? As poetry, these lines are vivid and admirable; as a scientific statement, which they must be taken to be if any one is justified in comparing them with another scientific statement, they fail to convey any intelligible conception to my mind.

Even those plants which, like the water marestail, can stand up by themselves some way out of the water, yet have softer stems than most land-plants, and far fewer well-developed “water-pipe” cells, because they are so surrounded by water that they can get it easily.