Thesaurus: fescue

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1. n. A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
2. n. An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
3. n. The style of a dial.
4. n. A grass of the genus Festuca.
5. v. i. & t. To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.
6. n. grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns
7. 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. To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue. Milton.
8. A grass of the genus Festuca. Fescue grass (Bot.), a genus ofgrasses (Festuca) containing several species of importance inagriculture. Festuca ovina is sheep's fescue; F. elatior is meadowfescue.
9. n:100 n. grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns