Definitions for Equisetum

Equisetum eq·ui·se·tum

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

Equisetum is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 181 anagrams from letters in Equisetum (eeimqstuu).

Definitions for Equisetum

noun

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

Origin of Equisetum

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

Examples for Equisetum

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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