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Noun: foxtail grass  'fóks,teyl grãs
  1. Ground pine thickly covered with bristly leaves; widely distributed in barren sandy or peaty moist coastal regions of eastern and southeastern United States
    - Lycopodium alopecuroides
     
  2. Grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes
    - foxtail

Derived forms: foxtail grasses

Type of: Christmas green, ground pine, meadow grass, meadowgrass

Encyclopedia: Foxtail grass