equisetum palustre

1. 1.

   scouring-rush horsetail widely distributed in wet or boggy areas of northern hemisphere

   Synonymsmarsh horsetail

   Broaderhorsetail

Questions about equisetum palustre

What does equisetum palustre mean?

equisetum palustre means "scouring-rush horsetail widely distributed in wet or boggy areas of northern hemisphere".

What is another word for equisetum palustre?

Close synonyms include marsh horsetail. 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 equisetum palustre a common word?

equisetum palustre 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.