Definition of horsetail
: any of a genus (Equisetum of the order Equisetales) of lower tracheophytes comprising perennial plants that spread by creeping rhizomes and have leaves reduced to nodal sheaths on the hollow jointed ribbed shoots
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Enclosed in glass on three sides, like some giant terrarium, but open to the sky, the inaccessible landscape will sprout with ferns, horsetail and magnolia trees.
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Sure — make that choice and all the horses in the landscape lose their tails, because horsetail hair was used for rope.
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15th century
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: a plant that produces spores and has small leaves resembling scales
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