Definition of Festuca

1. Noun. A genus of tufted perennial grasses of the family Gramineae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Festuca

Ferrein's ligament
Ferrein's pyramid
Ferrein's tube
Ferrein's vasa aberrantia
Ferris
Ferris wheel
Ferris wheels
Ferry
Ferry-Porter law
Fertile Crescent
Fes
Fescennia
Fescennine
Festival of Lights
Festivus
Festuca
Festuca elatior
Festuca ovina
Feta cheese
Feta cheeses
Fetta cheese
Fetta cheeses
Feuerbachian
Feuillant
Feuillants
Feulgen reaction
Feulgen reagent
Feulgen stain
Fevold test
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Literary usage of Festuca

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

1. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1793)
"SPEC. CHAR. Panicle upright, pointing one way, nearly One valve of the calyx very short. SVN. festuca uniglumis. Soland. in Ait. H. Keu. r. ..."

2. The Grasses of Iowa by Louis Hermann Pammel, Julius Buel Weems, F. Lamson-Scribner (1904)
"festuca. festuca L. Sp. P1. 73. 1753. Endlicher Gen. P1. 101. Bentham and Hooker. Gen. P1. 3: 1198. Hackel in Engler and Prantl. Nat. Pflanz. Fam. 11. ..."

3. Acta Soc. Pro Fauna Et Flora Fennica by Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica (1902)
"... on Car. jm- cella ja festuca rubra, mitkä yhdessä Car. salina ... Gerardi & Cal. stricta & festuca ..."

4. The Book of Grasses: An Illustrated Guide to the Common Grasses, and the by Mary Francis Baker (1912)
"... seen also j by the wayside bending over ripening spikes of Sweet 1 Vernal-grass. ! ' Sheep's Fescue (festuca ovina) and Slender Ч Slender Fescue festuca ..."

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