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Definition of Festuca elatior

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Festuca Elatior

Literary usage of Festuca elatior

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

1. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"MEADOW FESCUE (festuca elatior) 225. Botany and history. — Meadow fescue occurs naturally over all of Europe and in much of temperate Asia. ..."

2. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants: With an Easy Introduction to the by William Withering (1801)
"festuca elatior. ft Sp. PI. Reich. Boggy meadows and sid«s of wet ditches. ... festuca elatior *. Sp. PI. F. elatior. Fl. Suec. Rich wet meadows. ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1861)
"festuca elatior has complete possession. We have now performed this experiment twice with the same result, and our views seem confirmed by the accidental ..."

4. The Grasses of Great Britain by John Edward Sowerby, Charles Johnson (1861)
"Lower palea five-veined ; the middle vein terminating below the apex in a short awn. Leaves linear-lanceolate. festuca elatior ..."

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