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Definition of Horsetails
1. horsetail [n] - See also: horsetail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horsetails
Literary usage of Horsetails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany, with Agricultural Applications by John Nathan Martin (1920)
"Equisetales (horsetails) The Equisetales, now represented by only one genus,
Equisetum, containing about 25 species, were numerous in ancient times and some ..."
2. The Evolution of Plants by Dukinfield Henry Scott (1911)
"CHAPTER VII THE EVOLUTION OF THE HIGHER SPORE-PLANTS —THE horsetails AND THE ...
In some species, as in the two common British horsetails mentioned above ..."
3. Plant Life and Plant Uses: An Elementary Textbook, a Foundation for the by John Gaylord Coulter (1913)
"horsetails (Equisetales). — Equisetum means horsetail. ... One of the
horsetails (Equisetum arvense). A, a. vegetative shoot; note the scale- like leaves at ..."
4. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"They are mainly horsetails, Ferns, Club-Mosses, and various aquatics which have
been called Hydrop- ..."
5. Introduction to Botany by William Chase Stevens (1902)
"Some mosses, ferns, and horsetails should be collected in the fruiting condition
and preserved dry for experiments with the spores. OBSERVATIONS. MOSSES. ..."
6. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"horsetails.—The horsetails, which entirely replaced the cala- mites of the
Carboniferous, do not appear to have differed markedly from those now living, ..."
7. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"horsetails.—The horsetails, which entirely replaced the cala- mites of the
Carboniferous, do not appear to have differed markedly from those now living, ..."