Definition of "foxtail" [fox•tail]

• Any of several grasses of the genus Alopecurus, having dense, silky or bristly flowering spikes. (noun)

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• "- Grab a foxtail from the side of the pond before you leave."
• "On the Hot Creek, White Pine, and Golden Gate ranges we find a still hardier and more picturesque species, called the foxtail pine, from its long dense leaf-tassels."
• "The researchers also studied temperatures by looking at high-elevation trees, called foxtail pines, near Giant Forest."