单词 | equisetum |
释义 | equisetumn. Botany. A genus of plants called popularly Horsetail or Mare's-tail; the typical genus of the family Equisetaceæ. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > horse-tail and allies padpipe?a1300 paddock-pipec1300 holy-water strinklec1440 shavegrassc1450 shavewortc1450 horsetail1538 shaving-grass1538 cat's tail1552 toad-pipe1578 pewterwort1597 horse-willow1611 prêle1661 shave-weed1691 water horsetail1710 horse-pipe1785 rush1804 shave-rush1821 equisetum1830 pipeweed1837 scouring rush1845 mud horsetail1855 jointweed1879 bottlebrush1883 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 101 The fossil ferns, equiseta, and other plants of the coal strata. 1847 Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) I. 360 His oolitic upright Equisetums are dreadful for my submarine flora. 1873 J. W. Dawson Story Earth & Man vi. 129 Mares' Tails or Equisetums. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1830 |
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