Foxtail (Noun)
Meaning
Grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Farmers had difficulty getting the machinery to penetrate fields filled with prickly foxtail plants.
- Many farm dogs learn early on to recognize foxtails due to how painful they can be.
- The garden became an overgrown mass of weeds including the invasive foxtail species.
- Local wildlife struggled as the newly introduced non-native foxtail crowds out food-producing plants.
- Unaware toddlers often playfully clutch bundles of the irritating plant, known as foxtail.