noun
1. ground pine thickly covered with bristly leaves; widely distributed in barren sandy or peaty moist coastal regions of eastern and southeastern United States
• Syn: ↑Lycopodium alopecuroides
• Hypernyms: ↑ground pine, ↑Christmas green
2. grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes
• Syn: ↑foxtail
• Hypernyms: ↑meadowgrass, ↑meadow grass
• Hyponyms:
↑meadow foxtail, ↑Alopecurus pratensis, ↑bristlegrass, ↑bristle grass, ↑giant foxtail, ↑yellow bristlegrass, ↑yellow bristle grass, ↑yellow foxtail, ↑glaucous bristlegrass, ↑Setaria glauca, ↑green bristlegrass, ↑green foxtail, ↑rough bristlegrass, ↑bottle-grass, ↑bottle grass, ↑Setaria viridis, ↑foxtail millet, ↑Italian millet, ↑Hungarian grass, ↑Setaria italica
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nounsee foxtail 2a
Useful english dictionary. 2012.