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foxtails

foxtails is the plural of foxtail.

Meaning of foxtail

Noun

foxtail (plural foxtails)

  1. A tail of a fox.
  2. A dry spikelet or spikelet seed and flower cluster of some grasses.
  3. (dated) A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant.
  4. Any of various grasses having bushy seed spikelets that resemble the tail of a fox
    • Look at the foxtails growing along the road.
  5. species of genus Alopecurus (foxtail grasses).
  6. species of Setaria (foxtail millets).

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Questions about foxtails

What is foxtails the plural of?
Foxtails is the plural of foxtail.

Words near foxtails in the dictionary

  1. foxtail palm
  2. foxtail pine
  3. foxtail pines
  4. foxtail saw
  5. foxtail saws
  6. foxtails
  7. foxtaur
  8. foxtaurs
  9. Foxton
  10. Foxtons
  11. Foxtrap

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