Meaning of Horsetail | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
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.
7. A ponytail hairstyle.
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Examples

“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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