Definition of Equisetums

1. Noun. (plural of equisetum) ¹

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Definition of Equisetums

1. equisetum [n] - See also: equisetum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Equisetums

equiprimordially
equiprobabilities
equiprobability
equiprobable
equiprobably
equips
equipt
equirectangular
equirotal
equiseta
equisetaceous
equisetic
equisetiform
equisetosis
equisetum
equisetums (current term)
equison
equisonance
equisonances
equisonant
equisons
equispaced
equitabilities
equitability
equitable
equitableness
equitablenesses
equitably
equitant
equitation

Literary usage of Equisetums

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Record of Science and Industry by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1875)
"Dr. M'Nab traces a closer resemblance between the existing equisetums ("horse-tails") and the fossil calamites of the coal period than has hitherto been ..."

2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"The plants which at the present time predominate on the moors are still the equisetums, Ferns, Lycopods, and Conifers, and, in tropical regions, the Cycads; ..."

3. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1883)
"It differs alike from the recent equisetums and the fossil Calamites in the entire ... living representatives, or than the equisetums do from the Calamites. ..."

4. Fossil Plants: A Text-book for Students of Botany and Geology by Albert Charles Seward (1898)
"The specimens of fossil equisetums are usually readily recognised by the coherent leaf-segments in the form of nodal sheaths resembling those of recent ..."

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