foxtail : Idioms & Phrases

• noun barley grown for its highly ornamental flower heads with delicate long silky awns; North America and northeastern Asia
  Hordeum jubatum; squirreltail grass; squirreltail barley.
  

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• noun ground pine thickly covered with bristly leaves; widely distributed in barren sandy or peaty moist coastal regions of eastern and southeastern United States
  Lycopodium alopecuroides.
  
• noun grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes
  foxtail.
  

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• noun coarse drought-resistant annual grass grown for grain, hay, and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and hay in United States
  Italian millet; Setaria italica; Hungarian grass.
  

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• noun any of various orchids of the genus Rhyncostylis having pink- to purple-marked white flowers in a dense cylindrical raceme
  

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• a dovetail saw.

Webster 1913

• . See Fox wedge, under Fox.

Webster 1913

• noun two species of coarse annual foxtails that are naturalized weeds in United States
  

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• noun European foxtail naturalized in North America; often a troublesome weed
  Setaria viridis; rough bristlegrass; bottle grass; bottle-grass; green bristlegrass.
  

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• noun stout erect perennial grass of northern parts of Old World having silky flowering spikes; widely cultivated for pasture and hay; naturalized in North America
  Alopecurus pratensis.
  

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• (Bot.), a valuable pasture grass (Alopecurus pratensis) resembling timothy, but with softer spikes.

Webster 1913

• noun common weedy and bristly grass found in nearly all temperate areas
  yellow bristle grass; glaucous bristlegrass; yellow bristlegrass; Setaria glauca.
  

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