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Fescue

Fescue Meaning & Definition
Fescue Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Fescue?

[n] grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns

Synonyms | Synonyms for Fescue: fescue grass | Festuca elatior | meadow fescue

Related Terms | Find terms related to Fescue:

See Also | Festuca | genus Festuca | grass

Fescue In Webster's Dictionary

\Fes"cue\ (f[e^]s"k[-u]), n. [OE. festu, OF. festu, F. f['e]tu, fr. L. festuca stalk, straw.] 1. A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read. ``Pedantic fescue.'' --Sterne. To come under the fescue of an imprimatur. --Milton. 2. An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. [Obs.] --Chapman. 3. The style of a dial. [Obs.] 4. (Bot.) A grass of the genus {Festuca}. {Fescue grass} (Bot.), a genus of grasses ({Festuca}) containing several species of importance in agriculture. {Festuca ovina} is {sheep's fescue}; {F. elatior} is {meadow fescue}.
\Fes"cue\ (f[e^]s"k[-u]), v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. {Fescued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fescuing}.] To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue. --Milton.

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