genus equisetum

1. 1.

   horsetails; coextensive with the family Equisetaceae

   SynonymsEquisetum

   Broaderfern genus

   Part ofEquisetaceae

Questions about genus equisetum

What does genus equisetum mean?

genus equisetum means "horsetails; coextensive with the family Equisetaceae".

What is another word for genus equisetum?

Close synonyms include Equisetum. 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 genus equisetum a common word?

genus equisetum 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.