FOXTAIL

foxtail

Noun

  1. The tail of a fox.
  2. A dry spikelet or spikelet seed and flower cluster of some grasses
  3. A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.
    1. Any of various grasses having bushy seed spikelets that resemble the tail of a fox
      Look at the foxtails growing along the road.
  1. species of genus Alopecurus, foxtail grasses.
  2. species of Setaria, foxtail millets.
  3. , foxtail brome.
  4. , foxtail barley.
  1. , chenille plant.
  2. and , foxtail clubmosses.
  3. , foxtail palm.
  1. The last cinders obtained in the fining process.


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