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meadow fescue

noun

  1. a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.


meadow fescue

noun

  1. an erect Eurasian perennial grass, Festuca pratensis, with lustrous leaves and stem bases surrounded by dark brown sheaths
“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 meadow fescue1

First recorded in 1785–95
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Example Sentences

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

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

In much of Kansas meadow fescue would answer the purpose, northward brome grass would probably answer, and in some places timothy.

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