foxtail

/foks-teyl/US // ˈfɒksˌteɪl //UK // (ˈfɒksˌteɪl) //

狐狸尾巴,狐尾草,狐狸草,狐狸尾

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : the tail of a fox.
- : any of various grasses having soft, brushlike spikes of flowers.

But if the girls or women dozed, he gently tickled their cheeks with the foxtail hanging at the other end of the same stick.
The honey clover, foxtail, mullein, and dill-poppies had closed over the horrible path-way leading to the church door-block.
Another day the juncos are feeding on the seeds of the foxtail or pigeon grass, in an old orchard hard by the border of the woods.
Foxtail (Setaria glauca), false redtop (Triodia flava), and panic grass (Panicum clandestinum) also occur commonly.
Sheep sorrel was most common, next to this yellow or bitter dock and green foxtail.