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snake-grass

snake-grass noun: horsetails, including species Equisetum hyemale and Equisetum sylvaticum.

Noun

snake-grass (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

Forms of snake-grass

pluralsnake-grasses

Questions about snake-grass

What does snake-grass mean?
Snake-grass means horsetails, including species Equisetum hyemale and Equisetum sylvaticum.
What part of speech is snake-grass?
Snake-grass is a noun.
What is the plural of snake-grass?
The plural of snake-grass is snake-grasses.

Words near snake-grass in the dictionary

  1. snake-eating cobras
  2. snake-eel
  3. snake-eels
  4. snake-fear
  5. snake-fright
  6. snake-grass
  7. snake-grasses
  8. snake-in-the-box problem
  9. snake-killer
  10. snake-necked turtle
  11. snake-necked turtles

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