fescue

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F0089300 (fĕs′kyo͞o) n. 1. Any of various perennial grasses of the genus Festuca, often cultivated as pasturage. 2. Any of several annual grasses of the genus Vulpia of dry habitats.

[Short for fescue grass (so called from its being grown for hay and straw), from Early Modern English fescue, straw, piece of straw, alteration of Middle English festu, straw, from Old French, from Late Latin festūcum, from Latin festūca; perhaps akin to ferula, giant fennel (which has hollow stems), and fistula, hollow stalk, pipe.]

fescue

(ˈfɛskjuː) or

fescue grass

n (Plants) any grass of the genus Festuca: widely cultivated as pasture and lawn grasses, having stiff narrow leaves. See also meadow fescue, sheep's fescue[C14: from Old French festu, ultimately from Latin festūca stem, straw]

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(ˈfɛs kyu)

n. 1. any grass of the genus Festuca, some species of which are cultivated for pasture or lawns. 2. a pointer used to point out the letters in teaching children to read. [1350–1400; Middle English festu < Middle French « Latin]

fescue

- A pointer, such as that used by a teacher, having originally meant "a straw or twig."See also related terms for teacher.

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fescue - grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawnsfescue grass, Festuca elatior, meadow fescuegrass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hayFestuca, genus Festuca - a genus of tufted perennial grasses of the family Gramineae

fescue

(fĕs`kyo͞o), any of some 100 species of introduced Old World grasses of the genus Festuca. Meadow fescue and tall, or reed, fescue are excellent forage crops and the Chewing's, red, and sheep fescues are planted for turf. Fescue is classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Liliopsida, order Cyperales, family Poaceae. See grassgrass,
any plant of the family Poaceae (formerly Gramineae), an important and widely distributed group of vascular plants, having an extraordinary range of adaptation. Numbering approximately 600 genera and 9,000 species, the grasses form the climax vegetation (see ecology) in
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grass turf or greensward cultivated in private yard or public park. A good lawn, or green, has both beauty and usefulness; its maintenance for golf, tennis, baseball, and other sports is a costly and specialized procedure.
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fescue

[′fes‚kyü] (botany) A group of grasses of the genus Festuca, used for both hay and pasture.

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, fescue grass any grass of the genus Festuca: widely cultivated as pasture and lawn grasses, having stiff narrow leaves

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noun grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns

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