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cocksfoot

/ ˈkɒksˌfʊt /

noun

  1. a perennial Eurasian grass, Dactylis glomerata, cultivated as a pasture grass in North America and South Africa


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It feeds on cocksfoot and various other grasses occurring in woodlands.

It feeds on cocksfoot and other grasses from June to August.

Here is the rough "cocksfoot grass," with its head or "panicle" as it is called, upright and tufted.

Cocksfoot (orchard grass) was cultivated with great success and numbers of sheep were fattened on it.

Sometimes a mixture of cocksfoot, English rye-grass, and white clover is used, or the two grasses alone are planted.

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