meadow fescue

meadow fescue

n. A perennial grass (Festuca pratensis) native to Europe, grown for forage and hay.

meadow fescue

n (Plants) an erect Eurasian perennial grass, Festuca pratensis, with lustrous leaves and stem bases surrounded by dark brown sheaths

mead′ow fes`cue

n. a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America. [1785–95]

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Noun

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meadow fescue - grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawnsfescue, fescue grass, Festuca elatiorgrass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hayFestuca, genus Festuca - a genus of tufted perennial grasses of the family Gramineae