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fes·cue  (fsky)

n.

Any of various grasses of the genus Festuca, often cultivated as pasturage.

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

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fescue

Noun

a pasture and lawn grass with stiff narrow leaves [Old French festu]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

fescue - grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns fescue grass, Festuca elatior, meadow fescue 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