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Foxtail

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Noun

1. foxtail, foxtail grass

grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Foxtail

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noun
1. 
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
2. 
any of various similar and related grasses, esp any of the genus Setaria

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Foxtail

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noun
1. 
the bushy tail of a fox
2. 
any of various grasses (esp. genus Setaria) having cylindrical spikes bearing spikelets interspersed with stiff bristles

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Foxtail

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n.
1. Any of various grasses of the genus Alopecurus, having dense, silky or bristly flowering spikes.
2. Any of several similar grasses, especially of the genera Hordeum and Setaria.

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