dog's-tail

British  

noun

1. any of several grasses of the genus Cynosurus, esp C. cristatus (crested dog's-tail), that are native to Europe and have flowers clustered in a dense narrow spike

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dog's-tail

Beside these grow grasses including cock's-foot, crested dog's-tail, meadow fescue and sweet vernal-grass and among them all stride birds such as the curlew, lapwing, snipe and twite.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2012

There is a coarse rough grass, the 'cynosurus cristatus', or crested dog's-tail.

From The Dog by William Youatt

These pseudo-Titians were for Monsieur About his Alcibiades's dog's-tail.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various

Then under foot there were patches of woolly feather-grass and fragrant meadow-sweet, sheets of fescue, dog's-tail, creeping-bent, and meadow grass.

From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Émile Zola

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