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Definition of Fescues
1. fescue [n] - See also: fescue
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fescues
Literary usage of Fescues
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes by Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"... Point 'em with fescues to each shining part. DRYDEN. In thy felonious heart
though venom lies, It does but touch thy Irish pen, and dies. ..."
2. Hold Your Ground: A Practical Guide for Protecting Your Natural ResourcesNature (1993)
"Shady locations should be 60-70% red fescues. Tall turf-type fescues should be
seeded as monocultures or in mixes of other tall turf-type fescues, ..."
3. The Immigrants' Guide and Settler's Handbook by New Zealand Dept. of Lands and Survey (1906)
"Tho following mixtures of grass are used for ploughed land In the various counties :
Bruce—Rye-grass, cow-grass, white and red clover, and fescues (on the ..."
4. Turf for Golf Courses by Charles Vancouver Piper, Russell Arthur Oakley (1917)
"predominated, but we obtained much better results in the fairways from the fescues,
due, we believe, to the fact that the grass is not cut so closely. ..."
5. Meadows and Pastures by Joseph Elwyn Wing (1911)
"The grasses were bent and fescues, with some Yorkshire fog and cocksfoot, ...
On Plot 9 white clover was weaker than on Plot 8; fescues and bent were the ..."
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