snake-grass

noun

snake-grass

noun

1

Horsetails, including species Equisetum hyemale and Equisetum sylvaticum.

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

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