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horsetail

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horse=tail

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun horsetail has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

horsetailn. 
  •  A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A Turkish standard, denoting rank.  [1913 Webster]
    " 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."  [1913 Webster]
Shrubby horsetail. (Bot.) See Joint-fir.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

horsetail, n.
1 the tail of a horse (formerly used in Turkey as a standard, or as an ensign denoting the rank of a pasha).
2 any cryptogamous plant of the genus Equisetum, like a horse's tail, with a hollow jointed stem and scale-like leaves.
3 = pony-tail.

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