Noun | 1. | Equisetatae - horsetails and related forms class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders division Pteridophyta, Pteridophyta - containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta Equisetales, order Equisetales - lower tracheophytes in existence since the Devonian |