Usually means: Barbed seed cluster on grasses.
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  1. foxtail: Merriam-Webster
  2. foxtail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. foxtail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. foxtail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. foxtail: Vocabulary.com
  6. Foxtail, foxtail: Wordnik
  7. foxtail: Wiktionary
  8. foxtail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. foxtail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. foxtail: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. foxtail: Dictionary.com
  12. Foxtail (diaspore), Foxtail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Foxtail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. foxtail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. foxtail: Rhymezone
  16. Foxtail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. foxtail: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. foxtail: FreeDictionary.org
  19. foxtail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. foxtail: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. foxtail: Medical dictionary

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  1. foxtail: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (foxtail)

noun:  The tail of a fox.
noun:  A dry spikelet or spikelet seed and flower cluster of some grasses
noun:  A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.
noun:  Any of various grasses having bushy seed spikelets that resemble the tail of a fox
noun:  species of genus Alopecurus, foxtail grasses.
noun:  species of Setaria, foxtail millets.
noun:  Bromus madritensis, foxtail brome.
noun:  Hordeum jubatum, foxtail barley.
noun:  Acalypha hispida, chenille plant.
noun:  Lycopodiella alopecuroides, foxtail clubmoss.
noun:  Wodyetia bifurcata, foxtail palm.
noun:  The orchid Rhynchostylis retusa.
noun:  (metallurgy) The last cinders obtained in the fining process.

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