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HORSETAIL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("horsetail" is a kind of...):
fern ally (pteridophytes of other classes than Filicopsida)
Meronyms (parts of "horsetail"):
cone; strobile; strobilus (cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "horsetail"):
common horsetail; Equisetum arvense; field horsetail (of Eurasia and Greenland and North America)
Equisetum fluviatile; swamp horsetail; water horsetail (Eurasia; northern North America to Virginia)
Equisetum hyemale; Equisetum hyemale robustum; Equisetum robustum; rough horsetail; scouring rush (evergreen erect horsetail with rough-edged stems; formerly used for scouring utensils)
Equisetum palustre; marsh horsetail (scouring-rush horsetail widely distributed in wet or boggy areas of northern hemisphere)
Equisetum Sylvaticum; wood horsetail (Eurasia except southern Russia; northern North America)
Equisetum variegatum; variegated horsetail; variegated scouring rush (northern North America; Greenland; northern and central Europe)
Holonyms ("horsetail" is a member of...):
Equisetum; genus Equisetum (horsetails; coextensive with the family Equisetaceae)
