FESCUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fescue mean? 

• FESCUE (noun)
  The noun FESCUE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: FESCUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FESCUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

fescue; fescue grass; Festuca elatior; meadow fescue

Hypernyms ("fescue" is a kind of...):

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Holonyms ("fescue" is a member of...):

Festuca; genus Festuca (a genus of tufted perennial grasses of the family Gramineae)