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Grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes
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foxtail
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Wiktionary
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n. 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. 4 # Any of various grasses having bushy seed spikelets that resemble the tail of a fox 5 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Bottle \Bot"tle\, n. [OE. bote, botelle, OF. botel, bouteille, F. bouteille, fr. LL. buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Cf. Butt a cask.] A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, ...
Wikipedia
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A foxtail is a spikelet or spikelet cluster of a grass , that serves to disperse its seeds as a unit. Thus, the foxtail is a type of diaspore or plant dispersal unit. Some grasses that produce a foxtail are themselves called "foxtail", also " spear grass ...
WordNet
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n. grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes [syn: foxtail grass ]
Usage examples of foxtail.
As they lay in the dark, wrapped in their blankets of spider silk, on thick mattresses of pleasantly scented foxtail grass -- which, unlike the esparto of the desert, was yielding and springy -- Veig tried to argue them into staying there for another week.
Farther up the rocky slopes, weeds and ornamental grassesripgut and woodland brome, foxtail fescue and ryegrass-had spread across the landscape in a golden haze that softened the stony ridges.
Those meadows of moderate moisture could be colorful, too, with many flowering plants intermixed with the grassy ground cover of wild oats, foxtail barley, and, particularly on slopes and uplands, little bluestems.
It had carried so little traffic of late that the ridge down the center had grown a tall ruff of asters and foxtails.
In their place were a lot of weeds, some foxtails and the sad remains of dandelions.
I remarked, delicately disentangling a foxtail from his thick red mane.
Those meadows of moderate Igture could be colorful, too, with many flowering plants intermixed h the grassy ground cover of wild oats, foxtail barley, and, particularly on slopes and uplands, little bluestems.
Rosemund had reached the donkey, which had found a tuft of foxtail grass sticking out of the snow next to the lychgate.
A scattering of spruce and foxtail pine had crept up the south-facing slope, and I let the roan pick its way down through the trees.
And if you stare off there to the far right ahead of us where the tableland begins, you can see a whole mosaic of foxtail, gayfeather, and prairie sage.