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FOXTAIL

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

foxtail; foxtail grass

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("foxtail" is a kind of...):

meadow grass; meadowgrass (any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "foxtail"):

Alopecurus pratensis; meadow foxtail (stout erect perennial grass of northern parts of Old World having silky flowering spikes; widely cultivated for pasture and hay; naturalized in North America)

bristle grass; bristlegrass (grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet)

giant foxtail (two species of coarse annual foxtails that are naturalized weeds in United States)

glaucous bristlegrass; Setaria glauca; yellow bristle grass; yellow bristlegrass; yellow foxtail (common weedy and bristly grass found in nearly all temperate areas)

bottle-grass; bottle grass; green bristlegrass; green foxtail; rough bristlegrass; Setaria viridis (European foxtail naturalized in North America; often a troublesome weed)

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

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