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snake-grasses

snake-grasses is the plural of snake-grass.

Meaning of snake-grass

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

Questions about snake-grasses

What is snake-grasses the plural of?
Snake-grasses is the plural of snake-grass.

Words near snake-grasses in the dictionary

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

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