meadow fescue

American  

noun

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

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meadow fescue British  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of meadow fescue

First recorded in 1785–95

Example Sentences

Beside these grow grasses including cock's-foot, crested dog's-tail, meadow fescue and sweet vernal-grass and among them all stride birds such as the curlew, lapwing, snipe and twite.

From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2012

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

From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Shaw, Thomas