equisetum
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Origin of equisetum
1820–30; < New Latin; Latin equisaetum, equivalent to equi-, combining form of equus horse + saet ( a ) bristle + -um neuter noun suffix
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The houttuynia Chameleon, a leafy ground cover, is impossible to remove, much like equisetum, and both go wild in wet soils.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2019
And there began a growth of rushes and equisetum and potamogeton that ended only with the drying of the pond.
From The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
In the more damp and marshy places the bottom is covered with marsh trefoil, carex, smooth equisetum, and rush.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
Insipid milk, and lead-coloured butter, from equisetum fluviatile.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin
You know what lovely little fern or equisetum stalks of sapphire the filaments are; they beat me so, but they're coming nice.
From Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston by Ruskin, John
The plants consist chiefly of zamites, calamites, equiseta, and ferns, and, upon the whole, are considered by Professor Heer to have the nearest affinity to those of the European Keuper.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
The Calamites of the coal-measures bore indeed a very striking resemblance, and were closely related, to our modern horse-tails, as the equiseta are popularly called; but in some respects they differed considerably.
From The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes by Martin, Edward A.
The equiseta are very commonly met with in a vertical position more or less compressed perpendicularly.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
In the equisetums, the condition in question has been specially noticed to occur after prolonged drought.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
Plants are represented by Voltzia and by equisetums and ferns.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
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