= paddock-pipe, n.

With singular or plural agreement. Either of two kinds of plant with a cylindrical, often hollow stem, growing especially in wet or marshy…

(a) = holy-water sprinkle n. (a); (b) the plant Horsetail.

A plant of the genus Equisetum (see horsetail, n. 2); esp. E. hyemale.

= shavegrass, n.

The common name of the genus Equisetum, consisting of cryptogamous plants with hollow jointed stems, and whorls of slender branches at the joints…

= shavegrass, n.

A name given to several plants from the resemblance of parts to the tail of a cat. The horsetail, Equisetum.

any one of various species of Equisetum.

The rough horsetail, Equisetum hyemale. Also: any plant of the genus Equisetum.

= horsetail, n. 2.

A horsetail; esp. the rough horsetail, Equisetum hyemale.

= shavegrass, n., shave-rush, n.

†(a) a wetland horsetail, spec. the marsh horsetail, Equisetum palustre (obsolete); (b) (also more fully great water horsetail) a horsetail found…

(a local name for) any of several species of Equisetum or Horsetail.

North American. Any of various horsetails (genus Equisetum); esp. E. hyemale, sometimes used as animal fodder. Cf. Dutch rush n. at Dutch, adj.…

= shavegrass, n.

A genus of plants called popularly Horsetail or Mare's-tail; the typical genus of the family Equisetaceæ.

Any of various plants having straight, slender, esp. hollow or unbranched stems, esp. field horsetail (Equisetum arvense), and (U.S.) (more fully Indi…

Equisetum hyemale.

a horsetail that grows in wet mud; †great mud horsetail, great horsetail, E. telmateia (obsolete).

Popular name of different weeds having conspicuously jointed stems. Locally in English, various species of Horsetail (Equisetum); also the common…

Chiefly British regional. Any of several plants with clusters or whorls of narrow leaves radiating from nodes along the stem, as corn spurrey, Spergul…