Definitions for horsetail

horsetail horse·tail

Spelling: [hawrs-teyl]
IPA: /ˈhɔrsˌteɪl/

Horsetail is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 963 anagrams from letters in horsetail (aehilorst).

Definitions for horsetail

noun

  1. Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
  2. a horse's tail formerly used as a Turkish military standard or as an ensign of a pasha, the number of tails increasing with the rank.

Origin of horsetail

First recorded in 1350-1400, horsetail is from the Middle English word horse tayle. See horse, tail1

Examples for horsetail

Another common type of Pennsylvanian vegetation was the so-called “horsetail” plant or giant rush.

He was only human, and you must forgive him if he told of his adventure with the horsetail thieves.

The real leaves of the horsetail are much reduced in size, and take very little part in the work of nutrition.

I have reason to believe that these two horsetail thieves are taking shelter with some charcoal burners over near the river.

We have examples of the last-named class in the ferns, lycopods and horsetail plants.

A great comet streamed through the sky "like a horsetail," and it was well known that that meant pestilence or war.

“But in the time of Downton they would have definitely slept on a horsetail mattress,” he said.

One interesting point in connection with the cultivation of horsetail spores has been brought to light.

It is named for the abundance of horsetail (Equisitum) found there.

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

Word Value for horsetail
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Words with friends

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