foxtail noun. ['fɒksteɪl] LME.
[from FOX noun + TAIL noun¹.]
1. A fox's brush (formerly a badge of a fool or jester). LME.

2. Any of several grasses of the genus Alopecurus, with a soft spikelike panicle; esp. A. pratensis, a common grass of meadows. Also foxtail-grass. M16.

Comb.:
foxtail-grass: see sense 2 above; foxtail lily = EREMURUS; foxtail millet the grass Setaria italica, with a dense spikelike panicle, grown as a cereal in warm countries and as fodder in the US.

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