SHEEP FESCUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sheep fescue mean? 

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

1. cultivated for sheep pasturage in upland regions or used as a lawn grass

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHEEP FESCUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cultivated for sheep pasturage in upland regions or used as a lawn grass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Festuca ovina; sheep's fescue; sheep fescue

Hypernyms ("sheep 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 ("sheep fescue" is a member of...):

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