nounPlural cocksfootsˈkɒksfʊtˈkɑksfʊt
British A pasture grass with broad leaves and green or purplish flowering spikes.
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.