foxtail(n = noun.plant) foxtail grass - grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes;
is a kind of meadow grass, meadowgrass
has particulars: alopecurus pratensis, meadow foxtail, bristle grass, bristlegrass, giant foxtail, glaucous bristlegrass, setaria glauca, yellow bristle grass, yellow bristlegrass, yellow foxtail, bottle-grass, bottle grass, green bristlegrass, green foxtail, rough bristlegrass, setaria viridis, foxtail millet, hungarian grass, italian millet, setaria italica
1. The tail or brush of a fox. [1913 Webster]
2. The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of
3. The last cinders obtained in the fining process. Raymond. [1913 Webster]
foxtail, n. any of several grasses of the genus Alopecurus, with brushlike spikes.
foxtail barley, foxtail grass, foxtail millet, foxtail orchid, giant foxtail, green foxtail, meadow foxtail, yellow foxtail