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foxtail
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun foxtail has 1 sense
- foxtail(n = noun.plant) foxtail grass - grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes; Array has particulars: alopecurus pratensis, meadow foxtail, bristle grass, bristlegrass, giant foxtail, glaucous bristlegrass, setaria glauca, yellow bristle grass, yellow bristlegrass, yellow foxtail, bottle-grass, bottle grass, green bristlegrass, green foxtail, rough bristlegrass, setaria viridis, foxtail millet, hungarian grass, italian millet, setaria italica
is a kind of meadow grass, meadowgrass
CIDE DICTIONARY
foxtail, n.
- The tail or brush of a fox. [1913 Webster]
- The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of
Alopecurus andSetaria . [1913 Webster] - The last cinders obtained in the fining process. Raymond. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
foxtail, n. any of several grasses of the genus Alopecurus, with brushlike spikes.
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