equisetum /ek-wi-sēˈtəm/

A plant of the Equisetum genus, the only surviving genus of the family Equisetāˈceae, constituting the Equisetīˈnae or Equisetāˈles, a class of pteridophytes, stiff herbaceous plants with almost leafless articulated and whorled stems and branches (also horsetail, scouring-rush or Dutch rush)

equisetāˈceous adjective

equisētˈic adjective

equisētˈiform adjective

scour¹ /skowr/

1. To clean, polish, remove, or form by hard rubbing
2. To scrub
3. To cleanse
4. To free from grease, dirt, or gum
5. To flush or cleanse by a current
6. To purge, esp drastically
7. To clear out
8. To punish (figurative)

1. To scrub and polish
2. To serve or act as a purgative
3. (of livestock) to have diarrhoea

1. The action, place, or means of scouring
2. (often in pl) diarrhoea in cattle, etc
3. A swig of liquor (Scot)

scourˈer noun

1. A person who scours
2. An instrument or container for scouring
3. A cathartic

scourˈing noun

1. Scrubbing
2. Vigorous cleansing
3. Clearing
4. Erosion
5. Purging
6. (often in pl) matter removed or accumulated by scouring

scouring rush noun

Any of several horsetails or other plants whose rough stems were formerly used for scouring

scouring stick noun

A rod for scouring a gun

• slink butchers
• slinker
• slinkers
• slinkier
• slinkiest
• slinkily
• slinkiness
• slinking
• slinks
• slinkskin
• slinkskins
• slinkweed
• slinkweeds
• slinky
• slinter
• slinters
• slip
• slip a cable
• slip a mooring
• slip angle
• slip angles
• slip-board
• slip-boards
• slip-carriage
• slip-carriages