noun. Any of various perennial grasses of the genus Festuca, often cultivated as pasturage.

noun. Any of several annual grasses of the genus Vulpia of dry habitats.

To use a fescue in teaching pupils to read.

noun. A straw, wire, pin, or slender stick used to point out the letters to children when learning to read. See first extract under ferular.

noun. A plectrum with which a lyre or dulcimer is played.

noun. The style or straight rod by which the shadow is cast in sun-dials of certain forms, as in those set upon upright walls. See sun-dial.

noun. Fescue-grass. See Festuca.

verb. To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.

noun. A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.

noun. An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.

noun. The style of a dial.

noun. A grass of the genus Festuca.

noun. a genus of grasses (Festuca) containing several species of importance in agriculture. Festuca ovina is sheep's fescue; F. elatior is meadow fescue.

noun. A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.

noun. A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates. Any member of the genus Festuca.

verb. To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.

noun. grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns

"Also, thank you for explaining the word fescue -- one of the major livestock forage grasses an lawn grasses for that matter in the eastern US is called fescue, and now I know why!"

california fescue  creeping fescue  hard fescue  king's fescue  meadow fescue  

fescued  fescuing  

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Bermuda grass  blue grass  close-cut  flower-laden  gently-sloping  

plectrum