perennial rushlike flowerless herbs with jointed hollow stems and narrow toothlike leaves that spread by creeping rhizomes; tend to become weedy; common in northern hemisphere; some in Africa and South America
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horsetail::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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The largest of horsetail is the species Equisetum myriochaetum, of central Mexico.
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Dance movements mimic battlefield tactics such stabbing with the end of the horsetail.
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I did this on horsetail in a gravel driveway by using a cylinder lawnmower.
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This flowering plant is sometimes mistakenly identified as the non-flowering horsetail.
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Horsetail will grow in poorly drained beds or even in a shallow pond.
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The flagpoles were often decorated by a crescent, a wolf's head, a horsetail or a Qur'an box.
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The bow's horsetail hair is inseparably interlaced with the strings.
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Silica deposition in horsetail was shown to mimic the known deposition of callose in other higher plants.
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This suggested that callose might template silica deposition in horsetail and other biosilicifiers.
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- Perennial rushlike flowerless herbs with jointed hollow stems and narrow toothlike leaves that spread by creeping rhizomes; tend to become weedy; common in northern hemisphere; some in Africa and South America
- Equisetum (horsetail, snake grass, puzzlegrass) is the only living genus in the Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds.)
- The Common Mare's tail, Hippuris vulgaris, is a common aquatic plant of Eurasia and North America.
- Any of various simple vascular plants, of the family Equisetaceae, that have hollow stems and produce spores
- (Horsetails) are items found in an area of Petal Meadows in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Just before reaching the area with the bridge, coming from the Rogueport pipe, there is a Candy Cane that, when hit with a hammer, sinks down and bounces back up. ...
- A herb used as a beauty aid. The stem portion of the herb contains silica which is vital to the health of hair and nail. If your hair has split ends or feels rough, herbalists recommend taking 3 capsules each of horsetail and alfalfa (for the calcium). ...
- Is rich in silica that helps rebuild and provided elasticity to the skin and hair.
- Rich in minerals and vitamins. It enriches the blood, hardens the fingernails and revitalizes lifeless hair. It is also is good for those white spots that occur on the finger nails, which indicate a calcium imbalance in the body.
- A plant which first appeared in the Devonian. Horsetails have jointed stems with a ring of long, pointed leaves and branches at each joint. Equisetum is the only type of horsetail alive today. ...
