English-Thai Dictionary
fescue
N หญ้า จำพวก Festuca ใช้ เลี้ยงสัตว์ yar-jam-puk-chai-lang-sad
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
FESCUE
n.[L. festuca, a shoot or stalk of a tree, a rod. ] A small wire used to point out letters to children when learning to read.
FESCUE-GRASS
n.The Festuca, a genus of grasses.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
FESCUE
Fes "cue, n. Etym: [OE. festu, OF. festu, F. fétu, 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. To come under the fescue of an imprimatur. Milton.
2. An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. [Obs. ] Chapman.
3. The style of a dial. [Obs. ]
4. (Bot. )
Defn: A grass of the genus Festuca. 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.
FESCUE
Fes "cue, v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Fescued; p. pr. & vb. n. Fescuing.]
Defn: To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue. Milton.
New American Oxford Dictionary
fescue
fes cue |ˈfeskyo͞o ˈfɛskju | ▶noun any of a number of narrow-leaved grasses. [● a perennial grass that is a valuable lawn, pasture, and fodder species (genus Festuca, family Gramineae ). ● an annual grass that typically occurs on drier soils such as on dunes and wasteland (genus Vulpia, family Gramineae ).] ORIGIN Middle English festu, festue ‘straw, twig, ’ from Old French festu, based on Latin festuca ‘stalk, straw. ’ The change of -t- to -c- occurred in the 16th cent. ; the current sense dates from the mid 18th cent.
Oxford Dictionary
fescue
fescue |ˈfɛskjuː | ▶noun any of a number of narrow-leaved grasses: ● a perennial grass that is a valuable pasture and fodder species (genus Festuca, family Gramineae ). ● an annual grass that typically occurs on drier soils such as on dunes and heathland (genus Vulpia, family Gramineae ). ORIGIN Middle English festu, festue ‘straw, twig ’, from Old French festu, based on Latin festuca ‘stalk, straw ’. The change of -t- to -c- occurred in the 16th cent. ; the current sense dates from the mid 18th cent.
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