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Definition of Equisetums
1. equisetum [n] - See also: equisetum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Equisetums
Literary usage of Equisetums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Record of Science and Industry by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1875)
"Dr. M'Nab traces a closer resemblance between the existing equisetums ("horse-tails")
and the fossil calamites of the coal period than has hitherto been ..."
2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"The plants which at the present time predominate on the moors are still the
equisetums, Ferns, Lycopods, and Conifers, and, in tropical regions, the Cycads; ..."
3. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1883)
"It differs alike from the recent equisetums and the fossil Calamites in the entire
... living representatives, or than the equisetums do from the Calamites. ..."
4. Fossil Plants: A Text-book for Students of Botany and Geology by Albert Charles Seward (1898)
"The specimens of fossil equisetums are usually readily recognised by the coherent
leaf-segments in the form of nodal sheaths resembling those of recent ..."
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