meadow fescue

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meadow fescue - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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              To come under the fescue of an imprimatur. --Milton.
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     2. An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. [Obs.]
        --Chapman.
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     3. The style of a dial. [Obs.]
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     4. (Bot.) A grass of the genus Festuca.
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     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.
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meadow fescue - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  meadow fescue
      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
           ]