Foxtail

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A tail of a fox.
  2. 2
    grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes wordnet
  3. 3
    A dry spikelet or spikelet seed and flower cluster of some grasses.
  4. 4
    A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant. dated
  5. 5
    A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.; Any of various grasses having bushy seed spikelets that resemble the tail of a fox

    "Look at the foxtails growing along the road."

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  1. 6
    A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.; Any of various grasses having bushy seed spikelets that resemble the tail of a fox; species of genus Alopecurus (foxtail grasses).
  2. 7
    A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.; Any of various grasses having bushy seed spikelets that resemble the tail of a fox; species of Setaria (foxtail millets).
  3. 8
    A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.; Any of various grasses having bushy seed spikelets that resemble the tail of a fox; Bromus madritensis (foxtail brome).
  4. 9
    A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.; Any of various grasses having bushy seed spikelets that resemble the tail of a fox; Hordeum jubatum (foxtail barley).
  5. 10
    A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.; Acalypha hispida (chenille plant).
  6. 11
    A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.; Lycopodiella alopecuroides 9foxtail clubmoss0.
  7. 12
    A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.; Wodyetia bifurcata (foxtail palm).
  8. 13
    A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.; An orchid of species Rhynchostylis retusa.
  9. 14
    The last cinders obtained in the fining process.

Etymology

From Middle English fox-tail. By surface analysis, fox + tail.

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