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Definition of Foxtails
1. foxtail [n] - See also: foxtail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foxtails
Literary usage of Foxtails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Great Essays by Montaigne, Sidney, Milton, Cowley, Disraeli, Lamb, Irving by Helen Kendrick Johnson (1900)
"Like clubs from Polynesia the tips of the grasses are varied in shape; some tend
to a point—the foxtails—some are hard and cylindrical; others, avoiding the ..."
2. The Life of the Fields by Richard Jefferies (1902)
"Like clubs from Polynesia the tips of the grasses are varied in shape : some tend
to a point—the foxtails—some are hard and cylindrical ; others, ..."
3. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1910)
"Mr. Ebersole, of Pickaway : In most of our wheat fields after we cut off the
wheat we have a growth of large weeds and foxtails. ..."
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