Found 2 items, similar to Fescue.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: fescue fescue n : grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns [syn: fescue grass , meadow fescue, Festuca elatior]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Fescue 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. [1913 Webster] To come under the fescue of an imprimatur. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. [Obs.] --Chapman. [1913 Webster] 3. The style of a dial. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 4. (Bot.) A grass of the genus Festuca. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Fescue \Fes"cue\ (f[e^]s"k[-u]), v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Fescued; p. pr. & vb. n. Fescuing.] To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue. --Milton. [1913 Webster]