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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, characterized, as species of the genus Equisetum, by the production of two kinds of stems, one (usually appearing early in the spring) bearing the fructification, which soon withers entirely or at the apex, and the other bearing the sterile or vegetative branches. See homophyadic.

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