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Horsetail

noun

Perennial rushlike flowerless herbs with jointed hollow stems and narrow toothlike leaves that spread by creeping rhizomes; tend to become weedy; common in northern hemisphere; some in Africa and South America.

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... them up. She had her father's fondness for horses, and the pair of little grays were a gift from him with the picturesque sledge they drew. The dasher swelled forward like a swan's breast, and then curved deeply backward; from either corner of the band of iron filagree at the top, dangled a red horsetail. The man who had driven her to the station sat in a rumble behind; on the seat with Suzette was another young lady, who put out her hand to Wade with a look of uncommon liking, across the shining bearskin robe, and laughed at his astonishment in ...

— The Quality of Mercy • W. D. Howells

Words linked to "Horsetail" : variegated scouring rush, Equisetum hyemale robustum, Equisetum robustum, Equisetum hyemale, cone, scouring rush, fern ally, strobile, water horsetail, strobilus, Equisetum Sylvaticum, Equisetum palustre, Equisetum fluviatile, Equisetum arvense, Equisetum, genus Equisetum, Equisetum variegatum