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Definition of Fescue

1. Noun. Grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns.

Definition of Fescue

1. n. A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.

2. v. i. & t. To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.

Definition of Fescue

1. Noun. A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read. ¹

2. Noun. A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates. Any member of the genus ''Festuca''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fescue

1. a perennial grass [n -S]

Medical Definition of Fescue

1. 1. A straw, wire, stick, etc, used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read. "Pedantic fescue.' "To come under the fescue of an imprimatur." (Milton) 2. An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. 3. The style of a dial. 4. A grass of the genus Festuca. Fescue grass, a genus of grasses (Festuca) containing several species of importance in agriculture. Festuca ovina is sheep's fescue; F. Elatior is meadow fescue. Origin: OE. Festu, OF. Festu, F. Fetu, fr. L. Festuca stalk, straw. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fescue

Literary usage of Fescue

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Book of Grasses: An Illustrated Guide to the Common Grasses, and the by Mary Francis Baker (1912)
"Slender fescue and Sheep's fescue are among the first to bloom, and closely following the opening of 4 their flowers the graceful stems of Meadow fescue, ..."

2. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"Meadow fescue occurs naturally over all of Europe and in much of ... Meadow fescue was first recommended for cultivation by Kalm in Sweden in 1747. ..."

3. A Manual of Farm Grasses by Albert Spear Hitchcock (1921)
"inch thick, while those of hard fescue are about twice as thick, 1/12 inch. ... Festuca duriuscula L. Red fescue.—This is a distinct species with a somewhat ..."

4. The Forage and Fiber Crops in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1907)
"MEADOW fescue 90. Relationships.—The name English blue grass sometimes given ... Closely related to meadow fescue is tall meadow fescue or tall fescue (F. ..."

5. The American Farmer's Instructor, Or Practical Agriculturist: Comprehending by Francis S. Wiggins (1840)
"Hard fescue Grass. The hard fescue grass, Festuca duriuscula, flourishes in almost any situation, wet or dry, blossoms in June, and is considered one of the ..."

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