fescue

IPA: fˈɛskju

(countable) A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates. Any member of the genus Festuca.
(countable) An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
(countable) The style of a sundial.

Examples of "fescue" in Sentences

But for everblue weed control, the fescue is the first choice.
The fairways will be the native fescue, which is already growing in the slacks.
In the 1970s, researchers discovered an endophyte in fescue that caused a disease called fescue toxicosis.
Through the controlled burn, native seeds will have the chance to meet a bare ground that is no longer covered with species such as fescue and lespedeza, and dense thatch.
Also, thank you for explaining the word fescue -- one of the major livestock forage grasses an lawn grasses for that matter in the eastern US is called fescue, and now I know why!
Cook and Goldstein consulted scientists before deciding on a deep underground layer of soil and sand, as well as a mixture of tall fescue Wolfpack, Firenze and Turbo and Kentucky bluegrass seed.
As I understand it, in a process developed by a Kiwi agricultural scientist working in cooperation with the airport, an endophyte fungus is introduced to a certain kind of grass called fescue and the end product is given the catchy name Grasslanz Technology.