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US
/ˈhɔɹˌsteɪɫ/
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[ UK /hˈɔːsteɪl/ ]
[ UK /hˈɔːsteɪl/ ]
NOUN
- 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
How To Use horsetail In A Sentence
- From these various composts, special preparations are made using such things as silica, yarrow, chamomile, nettle, oak bark, dandelion and horsetail.
- Also scattered along the back of the beach are clumps of windswept Horsetail She-oaks - a perfect name for these pendulous trees.
- Over the meadows spread the regular Chinese-pagodas of the equisetum, (horsetail or scouring-rush,) and the rich coarse vegetation of the veratrum, or American hellebore. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861
- It is called horsetail or sewings, and is both fine and strong. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
- It was too early in the year to find lathering soaproot, and the countryside was too open for horsetail fern, which grew in shady damp places. The Mammoth Hunters
- The latter group comprises the archaeocalamites, calamites, and horsetails.
- Ingredients: pure olive essential oil, misaiya purete, wild yam extract, horsetail grass extract etc.
- Here over thirteen hundred footprints of the plant-eating apatosaurus a.k.a. brontosaurus and the carnivorous three-toed allosaurus, ripple marks, a few clams, a palm frond and some horsetails, fish bones, ooids have all solidified into solid rock. Bird Cloud
- Perennial weeds such as horsetail and bindweed need more attention because the roots should be removed to stand any chance of eradicating them.
- It's attached to the winter aconite, Eranthis hyemalis and also to a type of horsetail, Equisetum hyemale.
