Calamite
any fossil plant of the genus Calamites and related genera of the Carboniferous Period, resembling oversized horsetails and constituting much of the coal used as fuel.
Historical Examples
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various
noun
any extinct treelike plant of the genus Calamites, of Carboniferous times, related to the horsetails
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