Definitions for fescues

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fescues fes·cue

Spelling: [fes-kyoo]

IPA: /ˈfɛs kyu/

Fescues is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in fescues (ceefssu).

Definitions for fescues

noun

1. Also called fescue grass. any grass of the genus Festuca, some species of which are cultivated for pasture or lawns.
2. a pointer, as a straw or slender stick, used to point out the letters in teaching children to read.

Origin of fescues

1350-1400; earlier festue, Middle English festu Middle French Vulgar Latin *festūcum, for Latin festūca stalk, straw

Examples for fescues

The fescue (Festuca ovina), a little fern (Woodsia), and a saussurea ascend very near the summit.

The reader is probably acquainted with the fescue Grass, with its awned flowers arranged in one-sided panicles.

This burrow is a vertical well, with a curb of fescue grass intertwined with silk.

Meadow fescue is a palatable grass that would be used more often in pasture mixtures if the seed were not high in price.

Meadow fescue is one of the most common of the fescue grasses, and is said to be the Randall grass of Virginia.