foxtail : Idioms & Phrases


foxtail barley

  • noun barley grown for its highly ornamental flower heads with delicate long silky awns; North America and northeastern Asia
    Hordeum jubatum; squirreltail grass; squirreltail barley.
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foxtail grass

  • noun ground pine thickly covered with bristly leaves; widely distributed in barren sandy or peaty moist coastal regions of eastern and southeastern United States
    Lycopodium alopecuroides.
  • noun grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes
    foxtail.
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foxtail millet

  • noun coarse drought-resistant annual grass grown for grain, hay, and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and hay in United States
    Italian millet; Setaria italica; Hungarian grass.
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foxtail orchid

  • noun any of various orchids of the genus Rhyncostylis having pink- to purple-marked white flowers in a dense cylindrical raceme
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Foxtail saw

  • a dovetail saw.
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Foxtail wedging

  • . See Fox wedge, under Fox.
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giant foxtail

  • noun two species of coarse annual foxtails that are naturalized weeds in United States
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green foxtail

  • noun European foxtail naturalized in North America; often a troublesome weed
    Setaria viridis; rough bristlegrass; bottle grass; bottle-grass; green bristlegrass.
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Meadow foxtail

  • noun stout erect perennial grass of northern parts of Old World having silky flowering spikes; widely cultivated for pasture and hay; naturalized in North America
    Alopecurus pratensis.
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  • (Bot.), a valuable pasture grass (Alopecurus pratensis) resembling timothy, but with softer spikes.
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yellow foxtail

  • noun common weedy and bristly grass found in nearly all temperate areas
    yellow bristle grass; glaucous bristlegrass; yellow bristlegrass; Setaria glauca.
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