common horsetail

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   of Eurasia and Greenland and North America

   Synonymsfield horsetailEquisetum arvense

   Broaderhorsetail

Questions about common horsetail

What does common horsetail mean?

common horsetail means "of Eurasia and Greenland and North America".

What is another word for common horsetail?

Close synonyms include field horsetail, Equisetum arvense. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common horsetail a common word?

common horsetail is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.