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"sense": "foxtail grass",
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"taxonomic": "Hordeum jubatum",
"word": "foxtail barley"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Setaria italica",
"word": "foxtail bristlegrass"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Lycopodiella alopecuroides",
"word": "foxtail clubmoss"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Nodobryoria spp.",
"word": "foxtail lichen"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Setaria spp.",
"word": "foxtail millet"
},
{
"word": "Foxtail mosaic virus"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Rhynchostylis retusa",
"word": "foxtail orchid"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Wodyetia bifurcata",
"word": "foxtail palm"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Pinus balfouriana",
"word": "foxtail pine"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Setaria faberi",
"word": "giant foxtail"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Setaria viridis",
"word": "green foxtail"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Alopecurus geniculatus",
"word": "marsh foxtail"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Alopecurus pratensis",
"word": "meadow foxtail"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Setaria faberi",
"word": "nodding foxtail"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Alopecurus aequalis",
"word": "orange foxtail"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Alopecurus rendlei",
"word": "Rendle's meadow foxtail"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Alopecurus aequalis",
"word": "short-awn foxtail"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Alopecurus myosuroides",
"word": "slender meadow foxtail"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Alopecurus geniculatus",
"word": "water foxtail"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Setaria viridis",
"word": "wild foxtail millet"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Setaria glauca",
"word": "yellow foxtail"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "fox-tail"
},
"expansion": "Middle English fox-tail",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fox",
"3": "tail"
},
"expansion": "fox + tail",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English fox-tail, equivalent to fox + tail.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "foxtails",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "foxtail (plural foxtails)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"The tail of a fox."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A dry spikelet or spikelet seed and flower cluster of some grasses"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa"
],
"glosses": [
"A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.",
"Any of various grasses having bushy seed spikelets that resemble the tail of a fox",
"species of genus Alopecurus, foxtail grasses."
],
"links": [
[
"spikelet",
"spikelet"
],
[
"Alopecurus",
"Alopecurus#Translingual"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.",
"Any of various grasses having bushy seed spikelets that resemble the tail of a fox",
"species of Setaria, foxtail millets."
],
"links": [
[
"spikelet",
"spikelet"
],
[
"Setaria",
"Setaria#Translingual"
],
[
"foxtail millet",
"foxtail millet"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa",
"Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
],
"glosses": [
"A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.",
"Any of various grasses having bushy seed spikelets that resemble the tail of a fox",
"Bromus madritensis, foxtail brome."
],
"links": [
[
"spikelet",
"spikelet"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.",
"Any of various grasses having bushy seed spikelets that resemble the tail of a fox",
"Hordeum jubatum, foxtail barley."
],
"links": [
[
"spikelet",
"spikelet"
],
[
"Hordeum jubatum",
"Hordeum jubatum#Translingual"
],
[
"foxtail barley",
"foxtail barley"
]
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "Look at the foxtails growing along the road."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.",
"Any of various grasses having bushy seed spikelets that resemble the tail of a fox"
],
"links": [
[
"spikelet",
"spikelet"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
],
"glosses": [
"A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.",
"Acalypha hispida, chenille plant."
],
"links": [
[
"chenille plant",
"chenille plant"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
],
"glosses": [
"A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.",
"Lycopodiella alopecuroides, foxtail clubmoss."
],
"links": [
[
"foxtail clubmoss",
"foxtail clubmoss"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa",
"Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
],
"glosses": [
"A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.",
"Wodyetia bifurcata, foxtail palm."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
],
"glosses": [
"A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.",
"The orchid Rhynchostylis retusa."
],
"links": [
[
"orchid",
"orchid"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Metallurgy"
],
"glosses": [
"The last cinders obtained in the fining process."
],
"links": [
[
"metallurgy",
"metallurgy"
],
[
"cinder",
"cinder"
],
[
"fining",
"fine"
],
[
"Rossiter W[orthington] Raymond",
"w:Rossiter W. Raymond"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(metallurgy) The last cinders obtained in the fining process."
],
"topics": [
"engineering",
"metallurgy",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "lisiča opaška",
"sense": "tail of a fox",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лисича опашка"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "tail of a fox",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vossenstaart"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "tail of a fox",
"word": "ketunhäntä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "tail of a fox",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "queue de renard"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "tail of a fox",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Fuchsschwanz"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "tail of a fox",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "coda di volpe"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "tail of a fox",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "arbyl shynnee"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "tail of a fox",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lisi ogon"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lísij xvost",
"sense": "tail of a fox",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ли́сий хвост"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "tail of a fox",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "rävsvans"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "nakkatōka",
"sense": "tail of a fox",
"word": "నక్కతోక"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"english": "Setaria",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "xozanuk",
"sense": "foxtail grass",
"word": "խոզանուկ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "klasica",
"sense": "foxtail grass",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "класица"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "foxtail grass",
"word": "看麥娘"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "kànmàiniáng",
"sense": "foxtail grass",
"word": "看麦娘"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "Alopecurus",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "foxtail grass",
"word": "puntarpää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "Setaria",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "foxtail grass",
"word": "pantaheinä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "foxtail grass",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vulpin"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "Alopecurus",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "foxtail grass",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Fuchsschwanz"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "Setaria",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "foxtail grass",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Borstenhirse"
},
{
"alt": "スズメノテッポウ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "suzume no teppō",
"sense": "foxtail grass",
"word": "雀の鉄砲"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "qoänqūiryq",
"sense": "foxtail grass",
"word": "қоянқұйрық"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "tülkıqūiryq",
"sense": "foxtail grass",
"word": "түлкіқұйрық"
},
{
"code": "nv",
"english": "Alopecurus",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "foxtail grass",
"word": "zééʼiilwoʼii"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "tilki kuyruğu",
"sense": "foxtail grass",
"word": "تلكی قویروغی"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "foxtail grass",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "coada-vulpii"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "Setaria",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ščetínnik",
"sense": "foxtail grass",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "щети́нник"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "Setaria",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "myšéj",
"sense": "foxtail grass",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "мыше́й"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "foxtail grass",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cola de zorro"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"english": "Alopecurus",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "foxtail grass",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kavle"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "nakkatōka",
"sense": "foxtail grass",
"word": "నక్కతోక"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "foxtail grass",
"word": "tilkikuyruğu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "bushy seed spikelet",
"word": "tähkä"
}
],
"word": "foxtail"
}
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