WordNet
foxtail grass
n. ground pine thickly covered with bristly leaves; widely distributed in barren sandy or peaty moist coastal regions of eastern and southeastern United States [syn: Lycopodium alopecuroides]
grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes [syn: foxtail]
Usage examples of "foxtail grass".
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.
Rosemund had reached the donkey, which had found a tuft of foxtail grass sticking out of the snow next to the lychgate.