snake-grass

English

Noun

snake-grass (plural snake-grasses)

1. 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.