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horsetail

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈhɔː(ɹ)s.teɪl/Part of speech nounSorted aehilorstStarts with HEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A spore-bearing plant with jointed hollow stems.

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • Commanders were distinguished by the number of horsetails carried before them. The sultan had seven, the grand vizier five, and the pashas three, two, or one.
  • 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.
  • The woman was tall and rail-thin, bony across the shoulders and breast, with arms and legs of wire and gristle. A fighter, she wore the traditional haircut, shaved temples, roach of hair tugged back in a horsetail.

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