horsetails — n. tail of a horse; plant that does not produce flowers and has a hollow jointed stem; object that looks lika a horse s tail; Turkish standard that symbolizes a rank (used in the Ottoman Empire) … English contemporary dictionary
Roaring horsetails — Aurora Australis … Dictionary of Australian slang
roaring horsetails — Australian Slang Aurora Australis … English dialects glossary
Equisetopsida — ▪ plant class Introduction (division Pteridophyta), class of primitive spore bearing vascular plants. Most members of the group are extinct and known only from their fossilized remains. The sole living genus, Equisetum (horsetail), order… … Universalium
Embryophyte — Land plants Temporal range: Late Silurian–Recent[1][2] (Spores from Dapingian (early Middle Ordovician) … Wikipedia
Fern — This article is about the group of pteridophyte plants. For other uses, see Fern (disambiguation). Ferns (Pteridophyta) Temporal range: Mid Devonian[1] Recent … Wikipedia
Equisetum — Horsetail redirects here. For other uses, see Horse tail (disambiguation). Equisetaceae Temporal range: Late Mesozoic [1] to Recent … Wikipedia
plant development — Introduction a multiphasic process in which two distinct forms succeed each other in alternating generations. One form, created by the union of sexual cells (gametes (gamete)), contains two sets of similar chromosomes (diploid). At sexual… … Universalium
Demantoid — General Category Mineral … Wikipedia
reproductive system, plant — Introduction any of the systems, sexual or asexual, by which plants reproduce. In plants, as in animals, the end result of reproduction is the continuation of a given species, and the ability to reproduce is, therefore, rather conservative … Universalium
