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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 sheep's fescue
      n : cultivated for sheep pasturage in upland regions or used as
          a lawn grass [syn: sheep fescue, Festuca ovina]