Color Names

Horsetail

Ferny, ancient green, from a plant that predates horses.

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Horsetail is a muted green.

It can be described as muted, dull, matte and soft.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Horsetail

Equisetum

Equisetum is the only living genus in Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds. The oldest remains of modern Equisetum species first appear in the Early Jurassic.

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horsetail

Noun

  1. A tail of a horse. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  2. Any of various simple vascular plants, of the order Equisetales, that have hollow stems and produce spores.
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