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horse tail

horse tail is the alternative form of horsetail.

Meaning of horsetail

Noun

horsetail (plural horsetails)

  1. (literal) A tail of a horse.
  2. Any of various simple vascular plants, of the order Equisetales, that have hollow stems and produce spores.
  3. A Turkish standard denoting rank.
    • 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.
  4. 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. cauda equina, a bundle of nerve fibers.

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Forms of horse tail

pluralhorse tails

Questions about horse tail

What is horse tail the alternative form of?
Horse tail is the alternative form of horsetail.

Words near horse tail in the dictionary

  1. horse stance
  2. horse stances
  3. Horse Station Creek
  4. horse steroid
  5. horse steroids
  6. horse tail
  7. horse tails
  8. horse thief
  9. horse thieves
  10. horse tornado
  11. horse tornadoes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: horse tail (page history and authors); horsetail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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