cocksfoot

/ ˈkɒksˌfʊt /

noun

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

Example Sentences

The unseasonal weather buffets willow, blackberry flowers, cocksfoot and sorrel along the defunct trackbed of the Atlantic Coast Express, and a few jackdaws rise above the quarry's sheltering cliffs.

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As for grasses, the main pollinating plants are timothy, rye, cocksfoot, meadow and fescue.

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

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Thus in the dry sandy soil you may find broom, spurrey, sheep's fescue, pine trees, all with narrow leaves; whilst on the moister soil you may find burdock, primroses, cocksfoot and other broad-leaved plants.

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There was little knowledge of the various sorts of grasses at this time, and to Young is due the credit of introducing the cocksfoot, and crested dog's tail.

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