dog's-tail
Britishnoun
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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
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 Zola, Émile
There is a coarse rough grass, the 'cynosurus cristatus', or crested dog's-tail.
From The Dog by Youatt, William
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
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