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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various grasses of the genus Festuca, often cultivated as pasturage.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A straw, wire, pin, or slender stick used to point out the letters to children when learning to read. See first extract under ferular.
  2. n. A plectrum with which a lyre or dulcimer is played.
  3. n. The style or straight rod by which the shadow is cast in sun-dials of certain forms, as in those set upon upright walls. See sun-dial.
  4. n. Fescue-grass. See Festuca.
  5. To use a fescue in teaching pupils to read.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
  2. n. A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates. Any member of the genus Festuca.
  3. v. To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
  2. n. obsolete An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
  3. n. obsolete The style of a dial.
  4. n. (Bot.) A grass of the genus Festuca.
  5. v. To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns

Etymologies

  1. Old French festu (modern fétu), from Proto-Romance festu, from Latin festuca ‘stalk, stem, straw’. (Wiktionary)
  2. Alteration of Middle English festu, straw, from Old French, from Late Latin festūcum, from Latin festūca. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Also, thank you for explaining the word fescue -- one of the major livestock forage grasses an lawn grasses for that matter in the eastern US is called fescue, and now I know why!”

    Ferule & Fescue

  • “As I understand it, in a process developed by a Kiwi agricultural scientist working in cooperation with the airport, an endophyte fungus is introduced to a certain kind of grass called fescue and the end product is given the catchy name Grasslanz Technology.”

    The Huffington Post: Christine Negroni: Airport Sends Biological Message to Critters: Planes Suck

  • “But for everblue weed control, the fescue is the first choice.”

    Dealing With The Daylily Hill-It Is Imperative « Fairegarden

  • “The fairways will be the native fescue, which is already growing in the slacks.”

    The Thistle and the Bee

  • “In the 1970s, researchers discovered an endophyte in fescue that caused a disease called fescue toxicosis.”

    TheHorse.com News

  • “Through the controlled burn, native seeds will have the chance to meet a bare ground that is no longer covered with species such as fescue and lespedeza, and dense thatch.”

    TradingMarkets

  • “Cook and Goldstein consulted scientists before deciding on a deep underground layer of soil and sand, as well as a mixture of tall fescue Wolfpack, Firenze and Turbo and Kentucky bluegrass seed.”

    USA Today: Nation's 'front yard' gets green grass makeover

  • “So I'll play safe and stick to a simple list: brown bent, totter, sheep's fescue, crested dog's tail, cock's foot, sweet vernal, soft brome – poetic names of common hay meadow grasses that reflect a bygone era of agriculture.”

    The Guardian: Make hay meadow photos while the sun shines | Phil Gates

  • “He, uh, he tried to plant his fescue there with a damn—I mean darn insecticide sprayer, when he should have been using a seed planter.”

    Fictionaut: Hard Times

  • “They would laugh about him on their way home from work every night, after the final truck of fescue had been unloaded.”

    Fictionaut: Hard Times

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  1. plectrum

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  1. grass

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  2. gin-soaked
  3. still-green
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  2. jammy
  3. Bermuda grass
  1. unmown
  2. flower-laden
  3. tree-dotted
  1. gently-sloping
  2. new-laid
  3. understory
  1. statehouse
  2. close-cut
  3. well-manicured
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  1. fescue grass
  1. fescue
  1. reed-mote
  1. festue
  1. randall grass
  1. kœleria
  1. deer-grass

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  • knitandpurl "John and his mother swished through carpets of vetches and fescues or pushed their way through the bushes, splashing through springs that broke through the turf and flowed through the grass in secret cascades."
    John Saturnall's Feast by Lawrence Norfolk, p 42 Nov 10, 2012

  • hernesheir The style of a dial. --Century Dictionary Sep 28, 2011

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