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Cinder vs Foxtail - What's the difference?

cinder | foxtail |

As nouns the difference between cinder and foxtail

is that cinder is partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc while foxtail is the tail of a fox.

As a verb cinder

is to reduce something to cinders.

As a proper noun Cinder

is a river in Alaska.

cinder

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.
  • An ember.
    • (Jonathan Swift)
  • Slag from a metal furnace.

    • Derived terms

    * cinder block * cinder cone * cinder frame * cinder notch

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to reduce something to cinders

    • See also

    * Cinderella * scoria

    Anagrams

    * *

    foxtail

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The tail of a fox.
  • A dry spikelet or spikelet seed and flower cluster of some grasses
  • A plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet.
  • # Any of various grasses having bushy seed spikelets that resemble the tail of a fox
  • Look at the foxtails growing along the road.
  • ## species of genus Alopecurus , [.
  • ## species of Setaria , foxtail millets.
  • ## , (foxtail brome).
  • ## Hordeum jubatum , foxtail barley.
  • # , chenille plant.
  • # , foxtail clubmosses.
  • # , (foxtail palm).
  • (metallurgy) The last cinders obtained in the fining process.
    • (Raymond)

    Derived terms

    * (Carolina foxtail) * (marsh foxtail) * (meadow foxtail) * (short-awn foxtail) * (slender foxtail) * (water foxtail)

    External links

    * (wikipedia "foxtail")