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cock's-foot, cocksfoot
1. (More fully ˈcocksfoot grass): A well-known strong-growing pasture grass, Dactylis glomerata; so named from the appearance of its large distantly three-branched panicle.
1697Phil. Trans. XIX. 397 These are six Hairy spiked Cocks-foot-Grasses. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. I. 357 The seed of cock's-foot is light, and the culms are comparatively succulent at this period of growth. 1883G. Allen in Knowledge 8 June 337/1 A waving head of cock's-foot (Dactylis glomerata), which consists of numberless one-sided spikelets, clustered together.
†2. A name also applied to Columbine, and Greater Celandine. Obs.
1597Gerarde Herbal, Suppl. Eng. Names, Cockes foote is Columbine. Cocke foote is Chelidonia maior.
b. Applied by Gerarde to Digitaria sanguinalis, also called cock's-foot finger grass.
1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. VI. 135 Hairy Finger-grass, or Cock's-foot Finger-grass. |