FOXTAIL GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foxtail grass mean? 

• FOXTAIL GRASS (noun)
  The noun FOXTAIL GRASS has 2 senses:

1. ground pine thickly covered with bristly leaves; widely distributed in barren sandy or peaty moist coastal regions of eastern and southeastern United States

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOXTAIL GRASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ground pine thickly covered with bristly leaves; widely distributed in barren sandy or peaty moist coastal regions of eastern and southeastern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

foxtail grass; Lycopodium alopecuroides

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

Christmas green; ground pine (any of several club mosses having long creeping stems and erect branches)

Sense 2

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 grass" 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 grass"):

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)