HORSETAIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horsetail mean? 

• HORSETAIL (noun)
  The noun HORSETAIL has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: HORSETAIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORSETAIL (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:

Nouns denoting plants

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)