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  • fox-tail grass
    [W Car.; OED→ 1813; from the re­semblance of its fluffy reddish spikes to a fox's tail] n. a grass: 1889 Anatherum macrurum
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  • Fox Hill Day
    [from Fox Hill, a community east of Nassau said to be named after a loyalist, Samuel Fox] n. a festival
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  • fowl snake
    [cf. FOWL, its prey] n. a snake, Epi­crates striator, a constrictor: 1936 Wen y' see muh grab muh cutlass an'
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  • fowl-foot soapberry
    [cf. FOWL FOOT] n. a plant, Serjania subdentata, used medicinally: 1905 (Shattuck 258). (Black)
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  • fowl foot
    [OED different sp.; from the resemblance of its leaflets to a chicken's toes] n. a medicinal plant: 1920 Serjania subdentata (Britton 251). 1978
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  • fowler
    [OED, one who hunts birds, now rare] n. a snake, Epicrates striator, a constrictor which preys on chickens. = FOWL SNAKE
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  • fowl egg
    n. 1. [also Krio KED] a chicken egg, as opposed to that of other birds, turtles, etc.: I give the eggs—fowl eggs. And
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  • fowled of doing something
    [cf. OED fouled en­tangled nautical] phr. engaged in (doing) some­thing: 1977 Fowled of ironing: ironing clothes, or getting started ironing (Albury 158).
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  • fowl-crow
    [also Gul. ADD] n. the crowing of roosters, marking different periods of the pre­dawn hours: 1977 Before daylight next morning, just about
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  • fowl berry
    n. a tree, Petitia domingensis, with red berries: 1977 (Patterson 77). = BASTARD STOP­PER, PEPPER BERRY (Black)
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