European foxtail naturalized in North America; often a troublesome weed. 美国已经引入的欧洲狐尾植物;通常是一种害草。
foxtail
[ noun ] grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes <noun.plant>
Foxtail \Fox"tail`\, n. 1. The tail or brush of a fox.
2. (Bot.) The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of {Alopecurus} and {Setaria}.
3. (Metal.) The last cinders obtained in the fining process. --Raymond.
{Foxtail saw}, a dovetail saw.
{Foxtail wedging}. See {Fox wedge}, under {Fox}.
Bottle \Bot"tle\, n. [OE. bote, botelle, OF. botel, bouteille, F. bouteille, fr. LL. buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Cf. {Butt} a cask.] 1. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
3. Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.
Note: Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound.
{Bottle ale}, bottled ale. [Obs.] --Shak.
{Bottle brush}, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.
{Bottle fish} (Zo["o]l.), a kind of deep-sea eel ({Saccopharynx ampullaceus}), remarkable for its baglike gullet, which enables it to swallow fishes two or three times its won size.
{Bottle flower}. (Bot.) Same as {Bluebottle}.
{Bottle glass}, a coarse, green glass, used in the manufacture of bottles. --Ure.
{Bottle gourd} (Bot.), the common gourd or calabash ({Lagenaria Vulgaris}), whose shell is used for bottles, dippers, etc.
{Bottle grass} (Bot.), a nutritious fodder grass ({Setaria glauca} and {Setaria viridis}); -- called also {foxtail}, and {green foxtail}.
{Bottle tit} (Zo["o]l.), the European long-tailed titmouse; -- so called from the shape of its nest.
{Bottle tree} (Bot.), an Australian tree ({Sterculia rupestris}), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen, trunk.
{Feeding bottle}, {Nursing bottle}, a bottle with a rubber nipple (generally with an intervening tube), used in feeding infants.
Tamarisk and rabbit brush grow here, and foxtail barley rippling in wind like a sand-colored sea.