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equisetoid

[ ek-wuh-see-toid ]

noun

  1. any plant of the phylum or division Equisetophyta (or Sphenopsida), including the horsetails and many extinct species of the Carboniferous Period.


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Origin of equisetoid1

< New Latin Equiset ( um ) equisetum + -oid

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