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ˈhɔrsˌteɪlhorse·tail
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Princeton's WordNet
horsetailnoun
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
Wiktionary
horsetailnoun
Any of various simple vascular plants, of the family Equisetaceae, that have hollow stems and produce spores.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Horsetailnoun
A plant.
Wikipedia
horsetail
Equisetum (; horsetail, snake grass, puzzlegrass) is the only living genus in Equisetaceae, a family of ferns, which reproduce by spores rather than seeds.Equisetum is a "living fossil", the only living genus of the entire subclass Equisetidae, which for over 100 million years was much more diverse and dominated the understorey of late Paleozoic forests. Some equisetids were large trees reaching to 30 m (98 ft) tall. The genus Calamites of the family Calamitaceae, for example, is abundant in coal deposits from the Carboniferous period. The pattern of spacing of nodes in horsetails, wherein those toward the apex of the shoot are increasingly close together, is said to have inspired John Napier to invent logarithms. Modern horsetails first appeared during the Jurassic period. A superficially similar but entirely unrelated flowering plant genus, mare's tail (Hippuris), is occasionally referred to as "horsetail", and adding to confusion, the name "mare's tail" is sometimes applied to Equisetum.Despite centuries of use in traditional medicine, there is no evidence that Equisetum has any medicinal properties.
Webster Dictionary
Horsetailnoun
a leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum
Horsetailnoun
a Turkish standard, denoting rank
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of horsetail in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of horsetail in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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- přesličkaCzech
- padderok, padderokkeDanish
- SchachtelhalmGerman
- equisetácea, cola de caballoSpanish
- korteFinnish
- bjølluvísa, bjølgaFaroese
- prêleFrench
- eireaball capaillIrish
- elftingIcelandic
- coda di cavalloItalian
- 杉菜, 木賊Japanese
- asiūklisLithuanian
- kosaLatvian
- paardenstaartDutch
- snelleNorwegian
- ałtį́į́ jikʼáshíNavajo, Navaho
- skrzypPolish
- cavalinhaPortuguese
- barba-ursului, coada-caluluiRomanian
- бунчу́к, хвощRussian
- prasličkaSlovak
- fräkenSwedish
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