horsetail – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
horsetail
n.
tail of a horse; plant that does not produce flowers and has a hollow jointed stem; object that looks lika a horse's tail; Turkish standard that symbolizes a rank (used in the Ottoman Empire)
Equisetum
horsetail
Noun
1. 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
(hypernym) fern ally
(hyponym) common horsetail, field horsetail, Equisetum arvense
(member-holonym) Equisetum, genus Equisetum
(part-meronym) cone, strobilus, strobile
Horsetail
(n.)
A Turkish standard, denoting rank.
(n.)
A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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HORSETAIL
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