About The Word Fescue
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Fescue
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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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