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meadow fescue definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns [syn: fescue, fescue grass, meadow fescue, Festuca elatior]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1794 a tall vigorous broad-leaved European fescue grass (Festuca pratensis) cultivated for forage and hay

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fescue Fes"cue (f[e^]s"k[-u]), n. [OE. festu, OF. festu, F. f['e]tu, fr. L. festuca stalk, straw.] 1. A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read. ``Pedantic fescue.'' --Sterne. To come under the fescue of an imprimatur. --Milton. 2. An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. [Obs.] --Chapman. 3. The style of a dial. [Obs.] 4. (Bot.) A grass of the genus Festuca. Fescue grass (Bot.), a genus of grasses (Festuca) containing several species of importance in agriculture. Festuca ovina is sheep's fescue; F. elatior is meadow fescue.