horsetail
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English horsetaile, horstaile, equivalent to horse + tail.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈhɔː(ɹ)s.teɪl/
Audio (General American): (file)
Noun
[edit]horsetail (plural horsetails)
- (literal) The tail of a horse. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (botany) Any of various simple vascular plants, of the order Equisetales, that have hollow stems and produce spores.
- (military) A Turkish standard denoting rank.
- Commanders were distinguished by the number of horsetails carried before them. The sultan had seven, the grand vizier five, and the pashas three, two, or one.
- (botany) A mare's tail, a water plant in genus Hippuris.
- Any waterfall, the descending water of which maintains contact with bedrock most of the time.
- (anatomy) cauda equina, a bundle of nerve fibers.
- (rare) A ponytail hairstyle.
- 2011, George Romero, The Rescue, page 160:
- They were psychic mediums that wore a horsetail hairstyle. They believed that their long hair acted as cosmic antennae to receive alien communication from beyond.
- 2012, Clayton Emery, Mortal Consequences: Forgotten Realms:
- The woman was tall and rail-thin, bony across the shoulders and breast, with arms and legs of wire and gristle. A fighter, she wore the traditional haircut, shaved temples, roach of hair tugged back in a horsetail.
Derived terms
[edit]- common horsetail (Equisetum arvense)
- dwarf horsetail (Equisetum telmateia)
- field horsetail (Equisetum arvense)
- great horsetail (Equisetum telmateia)
- horsetail she-oak (Casuarina equisetifolia)
- horsetail pine (Pinus massoniana)
- horsetail syndrome
- marsh horsetail (Equisetum palustre)
- meadow horsetail (Equisetum pratense
- rough horsetail (Equisetum hyemale)
- shade horsetail (Equisetum pratense)
- shrubby horsetail (Ephedra foliata)
- variegated horsetail (Equisetum variegatum)
- water horsetail (Equisetum fluviatile)
- wood horsetail (Equisetum sylvaticum)
Translations
[edit]tail of a horse
plant of the order Equisetales
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Turkish standard
cauda equina — see cauda equina
ponytail hairstyle — see ponytail
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]horse tail on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Equisetum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Equisetum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Equisetum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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