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fescue

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fes=cue

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun fescue has 1 sense

fescue(n = noun.plant) fescue grass, festuca elatior, meadow fescue - grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns; Array

is a kind of grass

is a member of festuca, genus festuca

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CIDE DICTIONARY

fescue, n. [OE. festu, OF. festu, F. fétu, fr. L. festuca stalk, straw.].

A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read. Sterne. [1913 Webster]
"To come under the fescue of an imprimatur." [1913 Webster]
An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. Chapman. [1913 Webster]
The style of a dial. [1913 Webster]
A grass of the genus Festuca. [1913 Webster]

Fescue grass (Bot.), a genus of grasses (Festuca) containing several species of importance in agriculture. Festuca ovina is sheep's fescue; F. elatior is meadow fescue.

fescue, v. i. & t.

To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue. Milton. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

fescue, n. any grass of the genus Festuca, valuable for pasture and fodder.

Etymology

ME festu(e) f. OF festu ult. f. L festuca stalk, straw

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