Any waterfall, the descending water of which maintains contact with bedrock most of the time.
Used in a Sentence
horsetail
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for horsetail.
Editorial note
If you pull up one horsetail stem it won't do a thing to the horsetail as a whole.
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Quick take
Any waterfall, the descending water of which maintains contact with bedrock most of the time.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of horsetail gathered in one view.
(botany) Any of various simple vascular plants, of the order Equisetales, that have hollow stems and produce spores.
(literal) A tail of a horse.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for horsetail.
noun
Any waterfall, the descending water of which maintains contact with bedrock most of the time.
noun
(botany) Any of various simple vascular plants, of the order Equisetales, that have hollow stems and produce spores.
noun
(literal) A tail of a horse.
noun
(anatomy) cauda equina, a bundle of nerve fibers.
Example sentences
If you pull up one horsetail stem it won't do a thing to the horsetail as a whole.
If you pull up 100 horsetail branches the horsetail might be slightly weakened, but it'll come back.
My mom's garden is shot through with horsetails, but it's really all one horsetail connected by a single, massive rhizome.
There is an herb (horsetail herb) that allegedly helps with bone remineralization/regrowth as well as hair/skin/nail growth and it is loaded with silica.
I remember they way he climbed up the unstable ice cone that forms in the winter around Horsetail fall just to stick his own head into the vortex.
I live in Oregon now though and my kids love throwing horsetail shoots at each other like spears, which I imagine does a great job distributing its unique spores.
It's entirely possible for Nintendo to lock down protection of the Mario IP in virtual perpetuity in similar fashion, making copyright expiry moot for all but the most unimportant elements (say, the particular shapes of the clouds and horsetail plants in Super Mario Bros.
Quote examples
There's a plant called "horsetail", which is one of the earliest plants that still happens to exist to this day.
It turns out it's something called "horsetail" and it's considered a "living fossil".
Proper noun examples
It is possible to kill it -- it's possibly easier to kill than Horsetail/Mare's Tail, which spreads even faster at root level and is very difficult to remove, but thankfully does not damage buildings.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use horsetail in a sentence?
If you pull up one horsetail stem it won't do a thing to the horsetail as a whole.
What does horsetail mean?
Any waterfall, the descending water of which maintains contact with bedrock most of the time.
What part of speech is horsetail?
horsetail is commonly used as noun.