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fescue
(redirected from Festuca fllabellata)

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fes·cue  (fsky)
n.
Any of various grasses of the genus Festuca, often cultivated as pasturage.

[Alteration of Middle English festu, straw, from Old French, from Late Latin festcum, from Latin festca.]

fescue [ˈfɛskjuː], fescue grass
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any grass of the genus Festuca: widely cultivated as pasture and lawn grasses, having stiff narrow leaves See also meadow fescue, sheep's fescue
[from Old French festu, ultimately from Latin festūca stem, straw]

fescue - A pointer, such as that used by a teacher, having originally meant "a straw or twig."
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Noun1.fescue - grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawnsfescue - grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns
grass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
Festuca, genus Festuca - a genus of tufted perennial grasses of the family Gramineae


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