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foxtail
/ ˈfɒksˌteɪl /
noun
- any grass of the genus Alopecurus , esp A. pratensis , of Europe, Asia, and South America, having soft cylindrical spikes of flowers: cultivated as a pasture grass
- any of various similar and related grasses, esp any of the genus Setaria
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Example Sentences
To make herself feel safer, she filled her home with plants recommended for improving indoor air quality, including foxtail ferns and peace lilies.
But if the girls or women dozed, he gently tickled their cheeks with the foxtail hanging at the other end of the same stick.
The honey clover, foxtail, mullein, and dill-poppies had closed over the horrible path-way leading to the church door-block.
Another day the juncos are feeding on the seeds of the foxtail or pigeon grass, in an old orchard hard by the border of the woods.
Foxtail (Setaria glauca), false redtop (Triodia flava), and panic grass (Panicum clandestinum) also occur commonly.
Sheep sorrel was most common, next to this yellow or bitter dock and green foxtail.
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