mare's tailn.

Brit.

/ˈmɛːz teɪl/, U.S.

/ˈmɛrz ˌteɪl/

Inflections: Plural mare's tails, mares' tails, mare-tails, (regional) maayrestaails.

Forms: late Middle English maire tayle, 1500s mares tayle, 1700s– mare's-tail, 1800s– marestail, 1800s– mares-tail. Also with capital initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mare n.¹, tail n.¹

Etymology: < the genitive of mare n.¹ + tail n.¹, in sense 1 after post-classical Latin cauda equina (from 14th cent. in British sources). Compare cat's tail n., horsetail n., and in sense 2 colt's tail n.In sense 3 translating post-classical Latin cauda equina (see cauda equina n. at cauda n.).

a. The aquatic flowering plant Hippuris vulgaris (family Hippuridaceae), having an erect stem with leaves in whorls and small greenish axillary flowers; formerly also called female horsetail. Also: any of several horsetails (genus Equisetum), which Hippuris vulgaris superficially resembles. Cf. horsetail n. 2.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > mare's tail

padpipe?a1300

paddock-pipec1300

mare's tail?a1425

female horsetail1597

paddo-pipe1650

?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 194^v (MED) Cauda equina: Maire tayle or schaue gresse.

1526 Grete Herball ccxx. sig. Niii/2 Iperium is an herbe that is called mares tayle.

1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica 2 Hippuris..Anglis Mare's-tail.

1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xi. 122 (note) In the books it [sc. Hippuris] is called Female Horse-tail or Mare's-tail.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 56 The petty marestail forest, fairy pines.

1868 Sir J. Hooker Addr. in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. p. lxv The existing family of Equisetaceæ..contained previously but one genus, that of the common mare's tails of our river-banks and woods.

1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 374 On the shore, where it is marshy, the mares-tail flourishes.

1919 W. Graveson Brit. Wild Flowers (ed. 2) xxiii. 217 Some of the old writers regarded the plant [sc. Hippuris] as the female of one of the equisetums, and hence the transition of name from Female Horse-tail to Mares-tail.

1960 S. Ary & M. Gregory Oxf. Bk. Wild Flowers 52/2 Mare's-tail is a widespread but only locally common plant of lakes, streams, and ditches.

1990 Gardening from Which? Aug. 272/3 Casoron G4 can be used to kill mare's tails.

1991 C. Stace New Flora Brit. Isles 11 The common name Mare's-tail is often used [of the genus Equisetum] but is a misapplication; true Mare's-tail is Hippuris.

b. U.S. regional. Horseweed (Canadian fleabane), Conyza canadensis.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > erigeron

sweet scabious1789

fleabane1813

mountain daisy1897

mare's tail1900

1900 A. B. Lyons Plant Names 221 L[eptilon] Canadense... Mare's-tail.

1935 W. C. Muenscher Weeds 483 Mares-tail... Common throughout North America.

1993 T. Coffey Hist. & Folklore N. Amer. Wildflowers 255/1 Horseweed. Conyza canadensis... Bittersweet,..Canada Fleabane,..Mare's-Tail, [etc.].

2. A long straight streak of cirrus cloud, often believed to herald stormy weather. Usually in plural except in attributive use, as mare's tail cirrus, mare's tail cloud.

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > a cloud > cirrus > specific

mare's tail1775

hen scrattin1824

hen scrat1828

goat's hair1844

1581 W. Bourne Almanacke & Prognostication sig. F3 If that the skie aloft bee full of long streames like vnto Horses and Mares tayles, that is a token of great Southerly windes to followe.]

1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 68 408 A.M. sky mare's tails.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxix. 246 It resembled the mackerel fleeces and mare's tails of our summer skies at home.

1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. I. 354 A dense mass of mare's-tail cirrus.

1886 T. H. Huxley in 19th Cent. Feb. 202 The wildest streaks of marestail clouds in the sky.

1895 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 531 It is the cloud known to seamen..as ‘goats' hair’ or ‘mares' tails’.

1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin xi. 192 Occasional wisps of cloud..were being flung off into space..in low-lying, streaky fragments like spun silk. They were mares'-tails.

1943 National Geographic Mag. Dec. 653 (caption) Cirro-stratus resembles a thin white veil. Cirrus is the ‘mare's tail’ type.

1986 I. Wedde Symmes Hole (1988) 194 There was a different fan of breeze beginning to come off the sea and some high mares-tail was thickening to a haze out toward the horizon.

1993 Outdoor Canada Sept. (Suppl.) 7/1 Mackerel skies and mare's-tails mean your fishing rarely fails... Mare's-tails are cirrus clouds about 50,000 feet above the ground.

†3. Anatomy. = cauda equina n. at cauda n. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > specific nerves > [noun] > nerves in trunk

cauda1696

obturator nerve1732

phrenic1737

sciatic1741

solar ganglion1741

pudendal1752

solar plexus?1768

splanchnic1840

mare's tail1890

stellate ganglion1918

1890 Cent. Dict. Mare's-tail,..in anat., the cauda equina.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mares tail
释义	mare's tailn. Brit. /ˈmɛːz teɪl/, U.S. /ˈmɛrz ˌteɪl/ Inflections: Plural mare's tails, mares' tails, mare-tails, (regional) maayrestaails. Forms: late Middle English maire tayle, 1500s mares tayle, 1700s– mare's-tail, 1800s– marestail, 1800s– mares-tail. Also with capital initial. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mare n.¹, tail n.¹ Etymology: < the genitive of mare n.¹ + tail n.¹, in sense 1 after post-classical Latin cauda equina (from 14th cent. in British sources). Compare cat's tail n., horsetail n., and in sense 2 colt's tail n.In sense 3 translating post-classical Latin cauda equina (see cauda equina n. at cauda n.). 1. a. The aquatic flowering plant Hippuris vulgaris (family Hippuridaceae), having an erect stem with leaves in whorls and small greenish axillary flowers; formerly also called female horsetail. Also: any of several horsetails (genus Equisetum), which Hippuris vulgaris superficially resembles. Cf. horsetail n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > mare's tail padpipe?a1300 paddock-pipec1300 mare's tail?a1425 female horsetail1597 paddo-pipe1650 ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 194^v (MED) Cauda equina: Maire tayle or schaue gresse. 1526 Grete Herball ccxx. sig. Niii/2 Iperium is an herbe that is called mares tayle. 1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica 2 Hippuris..Anglis Mare's-tail. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xi. 122 (note) In the books it [sc. Hippuris] is called Female Horse-tail or Mare's-tail. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 56 The petty marestail forest, fairy pines. 1868 Sir J. Hooker Addr. in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. p. lxv The existing family of Equisetaceæ..contained previously but one genus, that of the common mare's tails of our river-banks and woods. 1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 374 On the shore, where it is marshy, the mares-tail flourishes. 1919 W. Graveson Brit. Wild Flowers (ed. 2) xxiii. 217 Some of the old writers regarded the plant [sc. Hippuris] as the female of one of the equisetums, and hence the transition of name from Female Horse-tail to Mares-tail. 1960 S. Ary & M. Gregory Oxf. Bk. Wild Flowers 52/2 Mare's-tail is a widespread but only locally common plant of lakes, streams, and ditches. 1990 Gardening from Which? Aug. 272/3 Casoron G4 can be used to kill mare's tails. 1991 C. Stace New Flora Brit. Isles 11 The common name Mare's-tail is often used [of the genus Equisetum] but is a misapplication; true Mare's-tail is Hippuris. b. U.S. regional. Horseweed (Canadian fleabane), Conyza canadensis. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > erigeron sweet scabious1789 fleabane1813 mountain daisy1897 mare's tail1900 1900 A. B. Lyons Plant Names 221 L[eptilon] Canadense... Mare's-tail. 1935 W. C. Muenscher Weeds 483 Mares-tail... Common throughout North America. 1993 T. Coffey Hist. & Folklore N. Amer. Wildflowers 255/1 Horseweed. Conyza canadensis... Bittersweet,..Canada Fleabane,..Mare's-Tail, [etc.]. 2. A long straight streak of cirrus cloud, often believed to herald stormy weather. Usually in plural except in attributive use, as mare's tail cirrus, mare's tail cloud. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > a cloud > cirrus > specific mare's tail1775 hen scrattin1824 hen scrat1828 goat's hair1844 1581 W. Bourne Almanacke & Prognostication sig. F3 If that the skie aloft bee full of long streames like vnto Horses and Mares tayles, that is a token of great Southerly windes to followe.] 1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 68 408 A.M. sky mare's tails. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxix. 246 It resembled the mackerel fleeces and mare's tails of our summer skies at home. 1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. I. 354 A dense mass of mare's-tail cirrus. 1886 T. H. Huxley in 19th Cent. Feb. 202 The wildest streaks of marestail clouds in the sky. 1895 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 531 It is the cloud known to seamen..as ‘goats' hair’ or ‘mares' tails’. 1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin xi. 192 Occasional wisps of cloud..were being flung off into space..in low-lying, streaky fragments like spun silk. They were mares'-tails. 1943 National Geographic Mag. Dec. 653 (caption) Cirro-stratus resembles a thin white veil. Cirrus is the ‘mare's tail’ type. 1986 I. Wedde Symmes Hole (1988) 194 There was a different fan of breeze beginning to come off the sea and some high mares-tail was thickening to a haze out toward the horizon. 1993 Outdoor Canada Sept. (Suppl.) 7/1 Mackerel skies and mare's-tails mean your fishing rarely fails... Mare's-tails are cirrus clouds about 50,000 feet above the ground. †3. Anatomy. = cauda equina n. at cauda n. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > specific nerves > [noun] > nerves in trunk cauda1696 obturator nerve1732 phrenic1737 sciatic1741 solar ganglion1741 pudendal1752 solar plexus?1768 splanchnic1840 mare's tail1890 stellate ganglion1918 1890 Cent. Dict. Mare's-tail,..in anat., the cauda equina. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425
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