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    MEADOW FOXTAIL

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Stout erect perennial grass of northern parts of Old World having silky flowering spikes; widely cultivated for pasture and hay; naturalized in North Americaplay

    Synonyms:

    Alopecurus pratensis; meadow foxtail

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    foxtail; foxtail grass (grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes)

    Holonyms ("meadow foxtail" is a member of...):

    Alopecurus; genus Alopecurus (annual or perennial grasses including decorative and meadow species as well as notorious agricultural weeds)

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