Definition of Festuca elatior

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

Exact synonyms: Fescue, Fescue Grass, Meadow Fescue
Generic synonyms: Grass
Group relationships: Festuca, Genus Festuca

Lexicographical Neighbors of Festuca Elatior

Ferrein's pyramid
Ferrein's tube
Ferrein's vasa aberrantia
Ferris
Ferris wheel
Ferris wheels
Ferry
Ferry-Porter law
Fertile Crescent
Fes
Fescennia
Fescennine
Festival of Lights
Festivus
Festuca
Festuca elatior (current term)
Festuca ovina
Feta cheese
Feta cheeses
Fetta cheese
Fetta cheeses
Feuerbachian
Feuillant
Feuillants
Feulgen reaction
Feulgen reagent
Feulgen stain
Fevold test
Few
Feyerabendian

Literary usage of Festuca elatior

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"MEADOW FESCUE (Festuca elatior) 225. Botany and history. — Meadow fescue occurs naturally over all of Europe and in much of temperate Asia. ..."

2. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants: With an Easy Introduction to the by William Withering (1801)
"Festuca elatior. ft Sp. PI. Reich. Boggy meadows and sid«s of wet ditches. ... Festuca elatior *. Sp. PI. F. elatior. Fl. Suec. Rich wet meadows. ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1861)
"Festuca elatior has complete possession. We have now performed this experiment twice with the same result, and our views seem confirmed by the accidental ..."

4. The Grasses of Great Britain by John Edward Sowerby, Charles Johnson (1861)
"Lower palea five-veined ; the middle vein terminating below the apex in a short awn. Leaves linear-lanceolate. Festuca elatior ..."

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