horsetail
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8.1
- noun
- /ˈhɔrsteɪl/
:
cola de caballo
- The garden was overrun with horsetail, making it difficult for the other plants to thrive.
Examples
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She had reached the edge of the current, where the wind raised small horsetails from the rushing water.
Fiction book (1996) -
Available plants included cycads, cycadeoids, conifers, ginkgoes, horsetails, and especially ferns.
Academic text (1991) -
The animals then draped a few stalks of horsetails and Araucaria over their nests and ambled to the periphery of the flats, their task completed.
Academic text (2002) -
Farmers often struggle to control horsetail because it spreads rapidly through its creeping rhizomes.
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In some regions, horsetail is viewed as a weedy plant that can damage crops and gardens.
Synonyms
A plant with hollow, jointed stems that makes spores instead of flowers
Compounds
- Specialized
A common plant with thin hollow stems and bushy branches that grows in damp fields
- Specialized
A living growth of thin, hair-like threads that hangs from tree branches
- Specialized
An evergreen plant with rough, jointed stems that people use to scrub pans
A small plant with thin jointed stems that have stripes of different color
A plant that grows in lakes and ponds with hollow stems and branches around the stem
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word horsetail comes from the plant's look: people thought its long, thin, jointed stems looked like a horse's tail, so they named it 'horse's tail' to help you picture the plant.