snake-grass

English

Noun

snake-grass (plural snake-grasses)

  1. Species of horsetail, including Equisetum hyemale and Equisetum sylvaticum.
    • 1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 1, page 49:
      The golden expanse was only varied by knots of the green snake-grass, with its slender and feathery leaves—the most graceful of herbs.
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