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cocksfoot

/ ˈkɒksˌfʊt /

noun

  1. a perennial Eurasian grass, Dactylis glomerata, cultivated as a pasture grass in North America and South Africa
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The unseasonal weather buffets willow, blackberry flowers, cocksfoot and sorrel along the defunct trackbed of the Atlantic Coast Express, and a few jackdaws rise above the quarry's sheltering cliffs.

As for grasses, the main pollinating plants are timothy, rye, cocksfoot, meadow and fescue.

From BBC

Sometimes a mixture of cocksfoot, English rye-grass, and white clover is used, or the two grasses alone are planted.

Thus in the dry sandy soil you may find broom, spurrey, sheep's fescue, pine trees, all with narrow leaves; whilst on the moister soil you may find burdock, primroses, cocksfoot and other broad-leaved plants.

There was little knowledge of the various sorts of grasses at this time, and to Young is due the credit of introducing the cocksfoot, and crested dog's tail.

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