different between horsetail vs cladoxylopsid

English

Alternative forms

• horse tail

Etymology

From Middle English horsetaile, horstaile, equivalent to horse +? tail.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h??(?)s.te?l/

Noun

horsetail (plural horsetails)

1. (literally) The tail of a horse. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (botany) Any of various simple vascular plants, of the order Equisetales, that have hollow stems and produce spores.
3. (military) A Turkish standard denoting rank.

4. (botany) A mare's tail, a water plant in genus Hippuris.
5. Any waterfall, the descending water of which maintains contact with bedrock most of the time.
6. (anatomy) cauda equina, a bundle of nerve fibers.
7. (rare) A ponytail hairstyle.
   • 2011, George Romero, The Rescue (page 160)

     They were psychic mediums that wore a horsetail hairstyle. They believed that their long hair acted as cosmic antennae to receive alien communication from beyond.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Equisetum
• Equisetum subg. Hippochaete (syn. Hippochaete)
• scouring rush

Further reading

• horse tail on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Equisetum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Equisetum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Equisetum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• aeroliths, isotheral

English

Noun

cladoxylopsid (plural cladoxylopsids)

1. Any of several plants, known only as fossils, that are thought to be ancestors of ferns and horsetails

Adjective

cladoxylopsid (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to these plants, of the extinct class Cladoxylopsida