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noun

Horsetail n.

(Bot.) A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns.

A Turkish standard, denoting rank. Note: Commanders are distinguished by the number of horsetails carried before them. Thus, the sultan has seven, the grand vizier five, and the pashas three, two, or one.

Shrubby horsetail. (Bot.) See Joint-fir.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... flies in our country. Among the first purchases made by the tourists in Luxor were fly brushes made of palm fiber or of white horsehair with wooden handles and loops to attach them to the wrist. It was amusing to see English, German, and American tourists switching at the flies with their horsetail brushes while the natives passively endured the crawling insects. Egyptian mothers in the village permitted the flies to creep over the babies' faces and settle in clusters around their eyes without attempting to drive the tormentors away, either too ...

— A Trip to the Orient - The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise • Robert Urie Jacob

Words linked to "Horsetail" : field horsetail, Equisetum palustre, variegated scouring rush, water horsetail, Equisetum hyemale robustum, horsetail lichen, Equisetum variegatum, wood horsetail, Equisetum, scouring rush, Equisetum fluviatile, strobilus, Equisetum hyemale, Equisetum Sylvaticum