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单词 mare's-tail
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mare's-tail

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mare's-tail

(mârz′tāl′)n. pl. mare's-tails or mares'-tails (mârz′tālz′) 1. A cosmopolitan aquatic herb (Hippuris vulgaris) having inconspicuous flowers and linear whorled leaves on erect unbranched stems.2. See horseweed.3. A long narrow cirrus cloud with a flowing appearance.

mare's-tail

n 1. (Physical Geography) a wisp of trailing cirrus cloud, often indicating high winds in the upper troposphere 2. (Plants) an erect cosmopolitan pond plant, Hippuris vulgaris, with minute flowers and crowded whorls of narrow leaves: family Hippuridaceae

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n. 1. a long narrow cirrus cloud with a flowing appearance. 2. an erect aquatic Old World plant, Hippuris vulgaris, of the family Hippuridaceae, with crowded whorls of narrow hairlike leaves. [1755–65]

mare's-tail

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mare's-tail,

any plant of the genus Hippuris, perennial, submerged aquatic herbs of temperate and frigid regions. Mare's-tails have an erect stem bearing whorls of small leaves, so they resemble some of the horsetails (which are also sometimes called mare's-tails); however, unlike horsetails, they are flowering plants, with the inconspicuous flowers borne in the leaf axils. Mare's-tails are cultivated in bog gardens. They are classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
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, class Magnoliopsida, order Callitrichales, family Hippuridaceae.
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