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Cirrus uncinus is a type of cirrus cloud.The name cirrus uncinus is derived from Latin, meaning "curly hooks".Also known as mares' tails, these clouds are generally sparse in the sky and very thin.
Marestail (also mare's tail and mare's-tail) may refer to: ... a fern ally also known as horsetail and pipeweed; Hippuris, a genus of aquatic flowering plants, ...
The common mare's tail is a creeping, perennial herb, found in shallow waters and mud flats. It roots underwater, but most of its leaves are above the water surface. The leaves occur in whorls of 6–12; those above water are 0.5 to 2.5 cm long and up to 3 mm wide, whereas those under water are thinner and limper, and longer than those above ...
Common mare's tail, Hippuris vulgaris. Mountain mare's tail, Hippuris montana; Fourleaf mare's tail, Hippuris tetraphylla; They are aquatic plants found in shallow ponds and streams, both slow-moving and fast-flowing. Hippuris, despite being a flowering plant, is sometimes mistakenly identified with the non-flowering plant horsetail.
Equisetum arvense, the field horsetail or common horsetail, is an herbaceous perennial plant in the Equisetidae (horsetails) sub-class, native throughout the arctic and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It has separate sterile non-reproductive and fertile spore-bearing stems growing from a perennial underground rhizomatous stem system.
1. The muscular portion of a horse's tail, where the hair is rooted. Sometimes refers only to the upper portion of this area, where the tail attaches to the hindquarters. [1]: 63 2. Docking: to cut a horse's tail at the dock, seen most often on carriage horses to keep the tails from becoming caught in the harness.
Cirrus fibratus, also called Cirrus filosus, [2] is a type of cirrus cloud.The name cirrus fibratus is derived from Latin, meaning "fibrous". [3] These clouds are similar to cirrus uncinus, commonly known as "mares' tails," yet different in that fibratus clouds do not have tufts or hooks at the end. [4]
Equisetum telmateia, the great horsetail, is a species of Equisetum (horsetail) native to Europe, western Asia and northwest Africa. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was formerly widely treated in a broader sense including a subspecies (subsp. braunii ) in western North America, but this is now treated as a separate species, Equisetum braunii .