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hard fescue
4. More fully fescue-grass: A genus ( Festuca) of grasses. hard fescue, sheep's fescue, meadow fescue: translations of the botanical names of species, F. duriuscula, F. ovina, F. pratensis. Also Chewings fescue [ < the name of Charles Chewings (1859–1937)] , a New Zealand pasture and lawn grass, Festuca rubra subsp. commutata.
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float-fescue1762
sheep's fescue1762
reed fescue1830
bunch-grass1837
rat's tail fescue1858
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1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica Index Fescue-grass, hard, meadow, sheep's, tall.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xiii. 144 Sheep's-fescue is a well known grass, always to be found in dry pastures, and sheep commons.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xiii. 145 The seeds of the flote Fescue sown in a dry soil, become the first year spiked, and the second meadow Fescue-grass.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 187 Fesque grass (Festuco) many species.
1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. viii. 315 Tall fescue grass stands highest.
1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. II. xxiv. 176 Short sedges and fescue-grass.
1855 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. I. 863/2 The hard fescue.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 78 Sweeping the frothfly from the fescue.
1917 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses viii. 152 Seeds of Chewing's Fescue should have a purity of 90 to 95 per cent.
1925 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. 31 357 Mr. Chewings harvested the fescue-field and marketed the seed, presumably as ‘Chewings's fescue’. This would be about the year 1885.
1954 C. E. Hubbard Grasses 115 The name ‘Chewings Fescue’ is from a Mr. Chewings who first sold its seed in New Zealand.
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hard fescue
hard fescue n. (more fully hard fescue-grass) any of several tough-leaved fescues, (now) esp. Festuca trachyphylla (also called F. brevipila) and F. longifolia, both native to Europe, used in sports turf and lawns.
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1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica 36 Anglis, hard Fescue-grass.
1895 M. J. Sutton Permanent & Temporary Pastures (ed. 5) 52 Hard Fescue forms one of the principal constituents of the sheep pastures of this country.
1937 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses (ed. 3) x. 205 In commerce ‘Hard Fescue’ and ‘Sheep's Fescue’ are almost interchangeable.
2004 House & Garden Aug. 56/3 If I want a truly care-free lawn, I should plant a superior variety of hard fescue (Festuca longifolia).
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