Foxtail

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A foxtail (or fox tail) can be:

• A type of woven jewellery chain made of three sets of interconnecting links.
• A decorative ornament commonly flown from the tip of automobile radio aerials, popular in the 1950s and 1960s.
• The trademarked name for a toy consisting of a rope tied to a ball, allowing it to be thrown like a sling. This toy name should not be confused with flying fox, which is an Australian English toy cablecar similar to a zip-line (also aerial runway).
• Various grasses:
  • wild barley
  • meadow foxtail
  • giant foxtail
  • green foxtail
  • foxtail or setaria millet, Setaria italica.
• The foxtail palm, Wodyetia bifurcata.
• The dry spikelets or spikelet clusters of foxtail and other grasses that can be hazardous for dogs and other domestic animals.
• Foxtail clubmoss, or Lycopodium clavatum.
• And, of course, the tail of a fox.