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Foxtail
noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A tail of a fox.
- 2 grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes wordnet
- 3 A dry spikelet or spikelet seed and flower cluster of some grasses.
- 4 A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant. dated
- 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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- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- 10 A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.; Acalypha hispida (chenille plant).
- 11 A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.; Lycopodiella alopecuroides 9foxtail clubmoss0.
- 12 A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.; Wodyetia bifurcata (foxtail palm).
- 13 A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.; An orchid of species Rhynchostylis retusa.
- 14 The last cinders obtained in the fining process.
Etymology
From Middle English fox-tail. By surface analysis, fox + tail.
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