A pasture grass with broad leaves and green or purplish flowering spikes.
〈主英〉鸭茅
Dactylis glomerata, family Gramineae
North American term orchard grass
Example sentencesExamples
We drove a few miles to the visitor centre, and then walked along a nature trail, surrounded by knapweed and cocksfoot, home to butterflies and dragonflies.
He joined his father in the grass seeding from an early age, first as billy boy and then cutting the cocksfoot.
Allow natural colonisation of seed tussocky grasses such as cocksfoot and Yorkshire fog.
In the field experiment, two cultivars of cocksfoot and their hybrid were compared.
Definition of cocksfoot in US English:
cocksfoot
nounˈkäksfo͝otˈkɑksfʊt
British
A pasture grass with broad leaves and green or purplish flowering spikes; orchard grass.
〈主英〉鸭茅
Example sentencesExamples
Allow natural colonisation of seed tussocky grasses such as cocksfoot and Yorkshire fog.
He joined his father in the grass seeding from an early age, first as billy boy and then cutting the cocksfoot.
In the field experiment, two cultivars of cocksfoot and their hybrid were compared.
We drove a few miles to the visitor centre, and then walked along a nature trail, surrounded by knapweed and cocksfoot, home to butterflies and dragonflies.