EGAVE

foxtail

About 0.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The tail of a fox.
  2. noun A dry spikelet or spikelet seed and flower cluster of some grasses.
  3. noun A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant.
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  4. noun A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet. Any of various grasses having bushy seed spikelets that resemble the tail of a fox
    Look at the foxtails growing along the road.
  5. noun Any of various grasses having bushy seed spikelets that resemble the tail of a fox
    Look at the foxtails growing along the road.
  6. noun Species of the genus Alopecurus (foxtail grasses).
  7. noun Species of the genus Setaria (foxtail millets).
  8. noun Bromus madritensis (foxtail brome).

Similar words

foxtail grass millet brush bell-pull bush cowtail fat-tail tail foxskin horsetail

Often followed by

millet grass and pine barley pines is millets lily

Word family

foxtail grass foxtails

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