mare's-tail (English, noun)
expansion: mare's-tail (plural mare's-tails or mares'-tails)
Senses:
glosses: A long streaky cloud, spreading out like a horse's tail, and believed to indicate rain; a cirrus cloud.
glosses: Any aquatic plant of the genus Hippuris, having narrow leaves in whorls.
glosses: Any aquatic plant of the genus Hippuris, having narrow leaves in whorls.
especially, common mare's tail (Hippuris vulgaris)
glosses: Erigeron canadensis (syn. Conyza canadensis), an annual weed.
glosses: Equisetum, a fern ally.
Forms:
form: mare's-tails
tags: plural
form: mares'-tails
tags: plural