foxtail Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes
    foxtail grass.

WordNet

Fox"tail` noun
Definitions
  1. The tail or brush of a fox.
  2. (Bot.) The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of Alopecurus and Setaria.
  3. (Metal.) The last cinders obtained in the fining process. Raymond.

Webster 1913