ALL meanings of horsetail
horse·tail
H h - noun horsetail Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems. 1
- noun horsetail a horse's tail formerly used as a Turkish military standard or as an ensign of a pasha, the number of tails increasing with the rank. 1
- noun horsetail type of plant 1
- noun horsetail A nonflowering plant with a hollow jointed stem that bears whorls of narrow leaves, producing spores in cones at the tips of the shoots. 1
- noun horsetail Any of various simple vascular plants, of the family Equisetaceae, that have hollow stems and produce spores. 0
- noun horsetail A Turkish standard denoting rank. 0
- noun horsetail any tracheophyte plant of the genus Equisetum, having jointed stems with whorls of small dark toothlike leaves and producing spores within conelike structures at the tips of the stems: phylum Sphenophyta 0
- noun horsetail a stylized horse's tail formerly used as the emblem of a pasha, the number of tails increasing with rank 0
- noun horsetail a horse's tail 0
- noun horsetail any of the only surviving genus (Equisetum) of a division (Equisetophyta) of plants having hollow, jointed stems, with scalelike leaves at the joints and spores borne in terminal cones; scouring rush 0