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fescue

[ fes-kyoo ]

noun

  1. Also called fescue grass. any grass of the genus Festuca, some species of which are cultivated for pasture or lawns.
  2. a pointer, as a straw or slender stick, used to point out the letters in teaching children to read.


fescue

/ ˈfɛskjuː /

noun

  1. any grass of the genus Festuca : widely cultivated as pasture and lawn grasses, having stiff narrow leaves See also meadow fescue sheep's fescue
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fescue1

1350–1400; earlier festue, Middle English festu < Middle French < Vulgar Latin *festūcum, for Latin festūca stalk, straw
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fescue1

C14: from Old French festu , ultimately from Latin festūca stem, straw
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Example Sentences

The reader is probably acquainted with the Fescue Grass, with its awned flowers arranged in one-sided panicles.

Meadow Fescue is one of the most common of the fescue grasses, and is said to be the Randall grass of Virginia.

The fescue (Festuca ovina), a little fern (Woodsia), and a saussurea ascend very near the summit.

A larger form, the Hard Fescue (F. duriuscula), is common to sound meadows and the hill valleys.

Meadow Fescue (Festuca pratensis, fig. 20) may be taken as the type of the broad-leaved fescues.

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