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Definition of Foxtail
1. Noun. Grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes.
Specialized synonyms: 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
Generic synonyms: Meadow Grass, Meadowgrass
Definition of Foxtail
1. n. The tail or brush of a fox.
Definition of Foxtail
1. Noun. The tail of a fox. ¹
2. Noun. Any of various grasses having bushy seed spikelets that resemble the tail of a fox; particularly members of the genera ''Alopecurus'' and ''Setaria''. ¹
3. Noun. Any bushy seed spikelet. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foxtail
1. the tail of a fox [n -S]
Medical Definition of Foxtail
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1. The tail or brush of a fox.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Foxtail
Literary usage of Foxtail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Grasses: An Illustrated Guide to the Common Grasses, and the by Mary Francis Baker (1912)
"Both the Green foxtail ... and the Yellow foxtail are very common near gardens,
and the smooth stems, red-tinged at the base, and bearing flattened sheaths ..."
2. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"Meadow foxtail is native to the temperate portions of Europe and Asia. ...
The culture of meadow foxtail dates from about the middle of the eighteenth ..."
3. The Cereals in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1908)
"(4) Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata L., B.connata Muhl., and B.frondosa L.).
317. foxtail.—There are two species of foxtail; one known as Pigeon grass ..."
4. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"BRISTLY foxtail GRASS Spikelets as in Panicum but surrounded by few or many
persistent ... (foxtail, PIGEON GRASS.) Annual ; culms branching at the base, ..."
5. The Forage and Fiber Crops in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1907)
"Meadow foxtail (Alopecurus pratensis L.) is closely related to timothy, ...
(49) Meadow foxtail is distinctly stoloniferous and therefore makes a good ..."
6. Successful Farming; a Ready Reference on All Phases of Agriculture for by Frank Duane Gardner (1916)
"foxtail.—The gre.?n and yellow foxtails are very similar in appearance and in
... The yellow foxtail is a common weed all over the world, while the green ..."
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