fes·cue /ˈfɛs(ˌ)kju/
教鞭,牛毛草
Fes·cue v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Fescued p. pr. & vb. n. Fescuing.] To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.
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Fes·cue n.
1. A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read. “Pedantic fescue.”
To come under the fescue of an imprimatur. --Milton.
2. An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. [Obs.]
3. The style of a dial. [Obs.]
4. Bot. 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
n : grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America
for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns [syn: fescue
grass, meadow fescue, Festuca elatior]