foxtail grass

Questions about foxtail grass

What does foxtail grass mean?

foxtail grass means "ground pine thickly covered with bristly leaves; widely distributed in barren sandy or peaty moist coastal regions of eastern and southeastern United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for foxtail grass?

Close synonyms include Lycopodium alopecuroides, foxtail. 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 grass a common word?

foxtail grass is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.