snake-grass

noun

Horsetails, including species Equisetum hyemale and Equisetum sylvaticum.

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Meanings

nounsnake-grass (plural snake-grasses)

plural snake-grasses

  1. Horsetails, including species Equisetum hyemale and Equisetum sylvaticum.

    The golden expanse was only varied by knots of the green snake-grass, with its slender and feathery leaves—the most graceful of herbs.

    1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 49
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