field horsetail

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   of Eurasia and Greenland and North America

   Synonymscommon horsetailEquisetum arvense

   Broaderhorsetail

Questions about field horsetail

What does field horsetail mean?

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

What is another word for field horsetail?

Close synonyms include common 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 field horsetail a common word?

field 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.