Crossword clues for horsetail
horsetail
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Horsetail \Horse"tail`\, n.
(Bot.) A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum.
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A Turkish standard, denoting rank.
Note: Commanders are distinguished by the number of horsetails carried before them. Thus, the sultan has seven, the grand vizier five, and the pashas three, two, or one.
Shrubby horsetail. (Bot.) See Joint-fir.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. 1 Any of various simple vascular plants, of the family ''(taxlink Equisetaceae family noshow=1)'', that have hollow stems and produce spores. 2 A Turkish standard denoting rank. n. 1 Any of various simple vascular plants, of the family ''(taxlink Equisetaceae family noshow=1)'', that have hollow stems and produce spores. 2 A Turkish standard denoting rank.
WordNet
n. 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
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "horsetail".
Knucklebones grabbed his horsetail, jerked him to his knees like a balky reindeer.
Most had manes braided down the spine but pulled up into a cascading horsetail on the crown of the head.
The swamps were woodland ecosystems comprised of a more alien-looking mix of vegetation than that found in many science fiction stories: landscapes dominated by giant clubmosses, giant horsetails, conifers, seed ferns, and tree ferns.
City, inside the emerald green ring of Park, waits a secret place where the moss and horsetail and tree fern forest plunges into a deep crystalline pool of warm spring water.
Ayla was nervous as she raced to dig up soaproot, horsetail fern, and red-rooted pigweed, and her stomach was a bundle of knots while she waited anxiously for boiling water from one of the cooking fires to extract the insecticidal element from the fern.
You will spend your waking hours harnessed and bitted with the proper horsetail phalluses fitted into place, and you will know no reprieve from this to enjoy the attention or affection of any Master or Mistress.
The image of the black horsetails streaking from their backsides, their heads held high by the bits, obliterated all other thoughts in an instant.
Perhaps it picked up iron from the soil, as horsetails pick up calcium oxalate, or some prairie grasses pick up selenium.
Horsetail was formerly official under the name of Cauda equina and was much esteemed as an astringent.
Horsetails and tree ferns grew to heights of fifty feet, club mosses to a hundred and thirty.
The Mare's Tail (Hippuris vulgaris) must not be confused with the Horsetail (Equisetum arvense).
Near the lip of the City, inside the emerald green ring of Park, waits a secret place where the moss and horsetail and tree fern forest plunges into a deep crystalline pool of warm spring water.
The other cascades are the Bridal Veil, the Horsetail, the Latourelle, and the Oneonta, and all are within a few miles of each other.
We're not used to seeing him in such an ugly brown robe (and he clearly doesn't know how to wear such a garment, because if we look at him from the wrong angle, we can see much more than we want to), or wearing sandals instead of wing tips, or with his hair pulled back into a rough horsetail and secured with a hank of rawhide, but this is undoubtedly Wendell Green.
Bobbi with the sleeves of her shirt rolled up and the top three buttons undone, beads of sweat trickling down between her breasts, her hair pulled back in a rough horsetail, eyes burning, face pale except for two hectic red patches, one in each cheek.