snake-grass

English

Noun

snake-grass (plural snake-grasses)

Species of horsetail, including Equisetum hyemale and Equisetum sylvaticum.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 49:
  The golden expanse was only varied by knots of the green snake-grass, with its slender and feathery leaves—the most graceful of herbs.

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