'sheep's fescue' definitions:
Definition of 'sheep's fescue'
(from WordNet)
noun
Cultivated for sheep pasturage in upland regions or used as a lawn grass [syn: sheep fescue, sheep's fescue, Festuca ovina]
Definition of 'sheep's fescue'
From: GCIDE
- Fescue \Fes"cue\ (f[e^]s"k[-u]), n. [OE. festu, OF. festu, F. f['e]tu, fr. L. festuca stalk, straw.]
- 1. A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read. "Pedantic fescue." --Sterne. [1913 Webster]
- To come under the fescue of an imprimatur. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. [Obs.] --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The style of a dial. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Bot.) A grass of the genus Festuca. [1913 Webster]
- Fescue grass (Bot.), a genus of grasses (Festuca) containing several species of importance in agriculture. Festuca ovina is sheep's fescue; F. elatior is meadow fescue. [1913 Webster]