Crossword clues for foxtail
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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, for holding liquids.
The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
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Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.
Note: Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound.
Bottle ale, bottled ale. [Obs.]
--Shak.Bottle brush, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.
Bottle fish (Zo["o]l.), a kind of deep-sea eel ( Saccopharynx ampullaceus), remarkable for its baglike gullet, which enables it to swallow fishes two or three times its won size.
Bottle flower. (Bot.) Same as Bluebottle.
Bottle glass, a coarse, green glass, used in the manufacture of bottles.
--Ure.Bottle gourd (Bot.), the common gourd or calabash ( Lagenaria Vulgaris), whose shell is used for bottles, dippers, etc.
Bottle grass (Bot.), a nutritious fodder grass ( Setaria glauca and Setaria viridis); -- called also foxtail, and green foxtail.
Bottle tit (Zo["o]l.), the European long-tailed titmouse; -- so called from the shape of its nest.
Bottle tree (Bot.), an Australian tree ( Sterculia rupestris), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen, trunk.
Feeding bottle, Nursing bottle, a bottle with a rubber nipple (generally with an intervening tube), used in feeding infants.
Wiktionary
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 ## species of genus ''Alopecurus'', [(vern foxtail grass pl=es). 6 ## species of ''Setaria'', foxtail millets. 7 ## (taxlink Bromus madritensis species noshow=1), (vern: foxtail brome). 8 ## ''Hordeum jubatum'', foxtail barley. 9 # (taxlink Acalypha hispida species noshow=1), chenille plant. 10 # (taxlink Lycopodium clavatum species noshow=1) and (taxlink Lycopodiella alopecuroides species noshow=1), foxtail clubmosses. 11 # (taxlink Wodyetia bifurcata species noshow=1), (vern: foxtail palm). 12 (context metallurgy English) The last cinders obtained in the fine process.
WordNet
n. grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes [syn: foxtail grass]
Wikipedia
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". They can become a health hazard for dogs and other domestic animals, and a nuisance for people.
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.