Thesaurus: fescue
A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
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Definitions
- n. A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
- n. An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
- n. The style of a dial.
- n. A grass of the genus Festuca.
- v. i. & t. To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.
- n. grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns
- 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.
- n:100 n. grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns