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noun

Horsetail n.

(Bot.) A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns.

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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Horsetail" Quotes from Famous Books

... expression, Bowman of her beauty, Kintla of her majesty. No one who has seen the foaming cascades of Mount Peabody and a lost outlet of the lofty Boulder Glacier emerging dramatically through Hole-in-the-Wall Fall, for all the world like a horsetail fastened upon the face of a cliff, who has looked upon the Guardhouse from Brown Pass and traced the distant windings of Bowman Lake between the fluted precipice of Rainbow Peak and the fading slopes of Indian Ridge; or has looked upon the mighty ...

— The Book of the National Parks • Robert Sterling Yard

... persuade Gloria to go on to Zeitoon and announce our coming. Kagig came galloping back and found us four met together by a little horsetail waterfall. He ordered her peremptorily to hurry and find Monty, but she simply ignored him. In another moment he was too bent on shepherding the ammunition cases to ...

— The Eye of Zeitoon • Talbot Mundy

Words linked to "Horsetail" : Equisetum hyemale robustum, variegated scouring rush, scouring rush, rough horsetail, strobile, Equisetum robustum, Equisetum variegatum, common horsetail, wood horsetail, horsetail family, Equisetum Sylvaticum, cone, field horsetail, swamp horsetail