Definition of Meadow fescue

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, Festuca Elatior
Generic synonyms: Grass
Group relationships: Festuca, Genus Festuca

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meadow Fescue

meaders
meadery
meadlike
meadow
meadow-beauty family
meadow beauty
meadow bright
meadow brown
meadow browns
meadow clary
meadow cranesbill
meadow cress
meadow dermatitis
meadow fern
meadow fescue (current term)
meadow foxtail
meadow goldenrod
meadow horsetail
meadow horsetails
meadow jumping mouse
meadow leek
meadow lily
meadow mouse
meadow muffin
meadow mushroom
meadow pea
meadow pipit
meadow pipits

Literary usage of Meadow fescue

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. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"meadow fescue occurs naturally over all of Europe and in much of ... meadow fescue was first recommended for cultivation by Kalm in Sweden in 1747. ..."

3. The Book of Grasses: An Illustrated Guide to the Common Grasses, and the by Mary Francis Baker (1912)
"Stamens 3, anthers yellow or purplish. Dry soil. June to August. Labrador to Alaska, south to North Carolina and Colorado. 15 meadow fescue Festuca ..."

4. The Farmer's Encyclopædia, and Dictionary of Rural Affairs: Embracing All by Cuthbert William Johnson (1844)
"The surface was then made fine with a rake, and sown with a mixture of the following grass seeds, at the rate of 5 bushels to the acre:—meadow fescue, ..."

5. The Forage and Fiber Crops in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1907)
"meadow fescue 90. Relationships.—The name English blue grass sometimes given ... Closely related to meadow fescue is tall meadow fescue or tall fescue (F. ..."

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