单词 | horsetail |
释义 | horsetail (once / 77759 pages) n WORD FAMILY horsetail: horsetails USAGE EXAMPLESThin, green marsh fern circled lakes alongside moonwort, rattlesnake fern and horsetail. New York Times(Oct 21, 2016) We had horsetail mattresses growing up - I believe they were leftovers from the army in WW2. New York Times(Feb 11, 2015) The sun set through a beautiful layer of pink, horsetail clouds and then it was officially night. New York Times(Jul 27, 2016) n 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 Hypo|Hyper Equisetum arvense, common horsetail, field horsetail of Eurasia and Greenland and North America Equisetum fluviatile, swamp horsetail, water horsetailEurasia; northern North America to Virginia Equisetum hyemale, Equisetum hyemale robustum, Equisetum robustum, rough horsetail, scouring rushevergreen erect horsetail with rough-edged stems; formerly used for scouring utensils Equisetum palustre, marsh horsetailscouring-rush horsetail widely distributed in wet or boggy areas of northern hemisphere Equisetum Sylvaticum, wood horsetailEurasia except southern Russia; northern North America Equisetum variegatum, variegated horsetail, variegated scouring rushnorthern North America; Greenland; northern and central Europe fern ally pteridophytes of other classes than Filicopsida |
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