FOXTAIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foxtail mean? 

• FOXTAIL (noun)
  The noun FOXTAIL has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: FOXTAIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOXTAIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

foxtail; foxtail grass

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)

 Context examples 

India grows a variety of coarse grains — including sorghum, pearl millet, maize, barley, and finger millet — as well as many ‘small millets’ such as kodo millet, little millet, foxtail millet, proso millet, and barnyard millet.

(Course grains better than rice for health, environment, SciDev.Net)