fescue

/fes-kyoo/US // ˈfɛs kyu //UK // (ˈfɛskjuː) //

茅草,茅膏菜,牧草,羊草

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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

The reader is probably acquainted with the Fescue Grass, with its awned flowers arranged in one-sided panicles.
Meadow Fescue is one of the most common of the fescue grasses, and is said to be the Randall grass of Virginia.
The fescue (Festuca ovina), a little fern (Woodsia), and a saussurea ascend very near the summit.
A larger form, the Hard Fescue (F. duriuscula), is common to sound meadows and the hill valleys.
Meadow Fescue (Festuca pratensis, fig. 20) may be taken as the type of the broad-leaved fescues.