WordNet
foxtail barley
n. barley grown for its highly ornamental flower heads with delicate long silky awns; North America and northeastern Asia [syn: squirreltail barley, squirreltail grass, Hordeum jubatum]
Usage examples of "foxtail barley".
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.