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fescue Definition

fes·cue (feskyo̵̅o̅′)

noun

  1. Rare a long stick, straw, etc., used as a teacher's pointer
  2. any of a genus (Festuca) of grasses, many of which are used in the temperate zone as lawn and pasture grasses

Etymology: ME festu < OFr < L festuca, a straw, blade of grass

fescue Usage Examples

Converse of subject

dominate: More neutral grassland dominated by tall fescue is found on the more level ground.

Converse of object

  • creep: Contains 70 % amenity ryegrass and 30 % creeping red fescue.
  • grow: They know the slow growing fine fescue and bent grasses, only require gentle refinement to produce high quality putting surfaces.
  • include: The ground flora includes wood fescue Festuca altissima and violet helleborine Epipactis purpurata.

Adjective modifier

  • tall: More neutral grassland dominated by tall fescue is found on the more level ground.
  • red: Suitable for banks - contains high % of red fescue which helps soil stabilization.
  • Red: Red fescue prefers an unproductive, dry, acid environment with low levels of disturbance.
  • pure: These are patches of pure fescue that have established mainly in the last year.

Modifies a noun

  • grass: A mixture of bent and fescue grasses often works best.
  • sward: We have successfully transformed our greens over a seven year period from 100 % Poa to a dominant bent and fescue sward.
  • carmel: Fescue carmel creeper ' who has just with a slight of renaissance minstrels.
  • creeper: Fescue carmel creeper ' who has just with a slight of renaissance minstrels.
  • pasture: Tall fescue pasture grass with improved forage digestibility was produced using an anti-sense gene for the lignin precursor enzyme cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase.

Noun used with modifier

  • meadow: Damper areas support species such as meadowsweet, ragged robin, water avens, lady's mantle and meadow fescue.
  • wood: Wood fescue, which is a national rarity, is confined to the damp ravines.
  • dune: Sea spurge Euphorbia paralias and the nationally scarce dune fescue Vulpia fasciculata are frequent, while sea bindweed Calystegia soldanella is very local.

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