Lion's tail n. (Bot.) A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. Leonurus Cardiaca is the common motherwort.
... with the audacity of endeavoring to palm myself off as a god—the way in which the thing first impressed me—I now perceived that I might be a god as much as I pleased, and yet not whisk a lion's tail after all at least ... — Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) • Herman Melville
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