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Definition of squirreltail in US English: squirreltail(also squirreltail grass) nounˈskwərltālˈskwərltāl A kind of barley with bushy spikelets, sometimes cultivated as an ornamental grass. Hordeum jubatum, family Gramineae Example sentencesExamples - The chaparral is much like that of Santa Fe: Piñon, sagebrush, snake bush, rice grass, squirrel-tail grass, sweet grass, and an occasional clump of prickly pear cactus.
- Robust towering angelica shelters the shell-like pea-green flowers of bells of Ireland, the graceful wisps of squirrel-tail grass and pineapple-like inflorescences of Eucomis bicolor.
- Seas of squirrel-tail grass shimmered around our ankles, always looking slightly out of focus as they rippled.
- Vegetation consists predominantly of big sagebrush, little sagebrush, rabbitbrush, snowberry, bluebunch wheatgrass, Idaho fescue, and squirreltail grass.
- The awns of Squirrel-tail Grass show a backward curving which, wedgelike, raises each spikelet from those below and soon separates the ripened spike, joint from joint.
Definition of squirreltail in US English: squirreltail(also squirreltail grass) nounˈskwərltāl A kind of barley with bushy spikelets, sometimes cultivated as an ornamental grass. Hordeum jubatum, family Gramineae Example sentencesExamples - The chaparral is much like that of Santa Fe: Piñon, sagebrush, snake bush, rice grass, squirrel-tail grass, sweet grass, and an occasional clump of prickly pear cactus.
- Robust towering angelica shelters the shell-like pea-green flowers of bells of Ireland, the graceful wisps of squirrel-tail grass and pineapple-like inflorescences of Eucomis bicolor.
- Seas of squirrel-tail grass shimmered around our ankles, always looking slightly out of focus as they rippled.
- Vegetation consists predominantly of big sagebrush, little sagebrush, rabbitbrush, snowberry, bluebunch wheatgrass, Idaho fescue, and squirreltail grass.
- The awns of Squirrel-tail Grass show a backward curving which, wedgelike, raises each spikelet from those below and soon separates the ripened spike, joint from joint.
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