| 2. | foxtail grass - grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikesAlopecurus pratensis, meadow foxtail - stout erect perennial grass of northern parts of Old World having silky flowering spikes; widely cultivated for pasture and hay; naturalized in North America bristle grass, bristlegrass - grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet giant foxtail - two species of coarse annual foxtails that are naturalized weeds in United States | |