Foxtail

[fɒksteil]

(noun.) grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes.

Checker: Lowell--From WordNet

(n.) The tail or brush of a fox.

(n.) The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of Alopecurus and Setaria.

(n.) The last cinders obtained in the fining process.

Edited by Karl