Definitions for equiseta

equiseta eq·ui·se·tum

Spelling: [ek-wuh-see-tuh m]
IPA: /ˌɛk wəˈsi təm/

Equiseta is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 164 anagrams from letters in equiseta (aeeiqstu).

Definitions for equiseta

noun

  1. any plant of the genus Equisetum, comprising the horsetails.

Origin of equiseta

1820-30; New Latin; Latin equisaetum, equivalent to equi-, combining form of equus horse + saet(a) bristle + -um neuter noun suffix

Examples for equiseta

One of the commonest forms is the field horse-tail (equisetum arvense), a very abundant and widely distributed species.

Near the shore grew the Naked Horse-tail (equisetum hyemale), having a shoot springing from its root on each side.

The corn-fields here produce Echioides (Lycopsis arvensis), and the woods the most slender kind of equisetum (sylvaticum).

Mike's Head is probably a popular name for the rush of the equisetum species, known as "horsetail."

equisetum silvaticum is our rarest horsetail; and our only clubmoss is Lycopodium clavatum.

At about 5,000 feet I first saw horsetails (equisetum), very like our own species.

In this connection his figuring young plants of equisetum attached to prothalli is interesting.

Insipid milk, and lead-coloured butter, from equisetum fluviatile.

An acid extracted by Peschier from aconitum napellus, and by Bracconnot from equisetum fluviatile.

You know what lovely little fern or equisetum stalks of sapphire the filaments are; they beat me so, but they're coming nice.

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