fescue Definition
fes·cue (fes′kyo̵̅o̅′)
noun
- Rare a long stick, straw, etc., used as a teacher's pointer
- 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.
Browse dictionary entries near fescue
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- ‹ fertilize
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