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Definition of Meadow fescue
1. Noun. Grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns.
Generic synonyms: Grass
Group relationships: Festuca, Genus Festuca
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meadow Fescue
Literary usage of Meadow fescue
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. 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. The Book of Grasses: An Illustrated Guide to the Common Grasses, and the by Mary Francis Baker (1912)
"Stamens 3, anthers yellow or purplish. Dry soil. June to August. Labrador to
Alaska, south to North Carolina and Colorado. 15 meadow fescue Festuca ..."
4. The Farmer's Encyclopædia, and Dictionary of Rural Affairs: Embracing All by Cuthbert William Johnson (1844)
"The surface was then made fine with a rake, and sown with a mixture of the
following grass seeds, at the rate of 5 bushels to the acre:—meadow fescue, ..."
5. 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. ..."
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