foxtail
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- noun
- /ˈfɑkˌsteɪl/
- Specialized
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- Well, I would probably have a ton of either foxtail barley or I would have some tomatoes and Peppers start to germinate in that flower bed.
- foxtail millet
- foxtail lilies
- foxtail grass
Examples
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#62 KS, you remove the Foxtail Bristlecone from MBH9X and you remove the Hockey Stick.
Blog text (8) -
There are 11,996 syntenic gene clusters across maize, sorghum, foxtail millet, rice, and Brachypodium.
Academic text (2017) -
Everyone has three or four cars, but only one runs, and the children race naked through yards buried with foxtails and stickerweed.
Fiction book (1998) -
I walked up the lost driveway, my socks collecting foxtails and burrs, toward the house where I grew up.
Fiction book (1993) -
A fantastic, eye-opening internship at Foxtail Farm CSA, an organic farm in Osceola, Wisconsin, back in 2005.
Blog text (31) -
S (COLOR): Good vole habitat, the field above has been clear for about a year and is dominated by plants such as mustard and foxtail grass.
Academic text (2002) -
A periodic inspection for hitchhikers, burrs, thistles, and foxtails helps to avoid fur irritation, hair coat rash, and skin eruptions in dogs.
Blog text (16) -
Due to poor soil fertility and water scarcity, a limited number of grains (mainly barley, foxtail millet, and soybeans) and sweet potatoes are cultivated and used for food.
Academic text (2018) -
Regard, if you will, the bouncing shadow of horse and rider, foxtail weed, sand blown into macadam cracks, the fading paint of a foul line reeling under hippity-hop strides.
Fiction book (1992) -
The fields were filled with tall spiky foxtail, swaying gently in the breeze.
Synonyms
A grass with a thick flower head that looks like a fox's tail
A group of grass plants like foxtail, some used in gardens and as weeds
A tall grass with soft, silky flower spikes that farmers cut for hay
A common annual grass with green, bristly flower heads that often grows as a weed in fields
A common wild grass often found as a weed in crop fields
A common bristly grass with yellow flower heads like a fox tail that often grows as a weed
A common grass weed with bristly yellow seed heads that grows in fields and gardens
A coarse grass that grows in fields and crowds out crops
A grass from Europe that spreads easily and is a common weed
A wild grass that grows in farm fields and causes problems for crops
A grass plant that tolerates drought and is grown for small seeds and animal feed
Compounds
- Specialized
A grass with long, silky seed heads like a fox tail, often grown for decoration or seen as a weed
- Specialized
A rough grass that grows in dry places and is grown for grain and animal feed
- Specialized
A common annual grass with green, bristly flower heads that often grows as a weed in fields
- Specialized
A common grass weed with bristly yellow seed heads that grows in fields and gardens
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word foxtail comes from fox + tail because the grass has a long, bushy flower head that 'looks like a fox's tail'. So the name helps you picture the plant's bristly, tail-like spikes.