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Chinese
Pronunciation
Noun
木賊
- (traditional Chinese medicine) horsetail (an herb used to treat "wind-heat" symptoms)
Japanese
Etymology 1
トクサ on Japanese Wikipedia
Noun
木賊 or 木賊 • (tokusa)
- rough horsetail (Equisetum hyemale)
Usage notes
As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary).
Etymology 2
Noun
木賊 • (mokuzoku)
- (traditional Chinese medicine) dried roots of scouring rush (Equisetum hyemale) used as medicine