foxtail

Other forms of foxtail

plural

foxtails·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about foxtail

What does foxtail mean?

foxtail means "grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes".

How many syllables are in foxtail?

foxtail has 2 syllables: fox-tail. The stress falls on "fox". In IPA it is /ˈfɑkˌsteɪl/.

What is another word for foxtail?

Close synonyms include foxtail grass. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is foxtail a common word?

foxtail is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with foxtail?

2 words rhyme with foxtail. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.