Associations to the word «Horsetail»

Wiktionary

HORSETAIL, noun. Any of various simple vascular plants, of the family Equisetaceae, that have hollow stems and produce spores.
HORSETAIL, noun. A Turkish standard denoting rank.
HORSETAIL PINE, noun. A pine tree, Pinus massoniana, native to a wide area of central and southern China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, and northern Vietnam.

Dictionary definition

HORSETAIL, noun. Perennial rushlike flowerless herbs with jointed hollow stems and narrow toothlike leaves that spread by creeping rhizomes; tend to become weedy; common in northern hemisphere; some in Africa and South America.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope