fescue
pronunciation
How to pronounce fescue in British English:
UK ['feskju:]
How to pronounce fescue in American English:
US ['feskju]
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- Noun:
- grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns
Word Origin
- fescue (n.)
- 1510s, "teacher's pointer," alteration of festu "piece of straw, twig" (late 14c.), from Old French festu "straw; object of little value" (12c., Modern French fétu), from Vulgar Latin festucum, from Latin festuca "straw, stalk, rod," probably related to ferula "reed, whip, rod" (see ferule). Sense of "pasture, lawn grass" is first recorded 1762. Wyclif (1382) has festu in Matt. vii:3 for the "mote" in the eye. In Old French rompre le festu was to symbolically break a straw to signify the breaking of a bond.
Example
- 1. Effect of endophyte infection on zn resistance of tall fescue .
- 2. Tall fescue is grown as a forage crop in many parts of the world .
- 3. Table 2-2 glume flower characteristics of tall fescue .
- 4. The effect of endophyte on physiological characters of tall fescue under drought stress .
- 5. Biotechnology has great application potential in varietals improvement of tall fescue , which is commonly grown as cool-season turf grass in the temperate region .