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Horsetail was named for its bristly appearance. The genus name Equisetum is derived from the Latin words equus, meaning horse, and seta, meaning bristle. Other names for horsetail include shave-grass, bottle-brush, and paddock-pipes.
Earlier naturalists referred to the loons as mergus (the Latin term for diving seabirds of all sorts) or colymbus, which became the genus name used in the first modern scientific description of a Gavia species (by Carl Linnaeus) in 1758.ither way, the name refers to the loonâs poor ability to walk on land. Another possible derivation is from the Norwegian word lom for these birds, which comes from Old Norse lomr, lÃ³mr possibly cognate With english, lament referring to the characteristic plaintive sound of the. loon