English > Festuca: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | A genus of tufted perennial grasses of the family Gramineae. |
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| Synonym | genus Festuca |
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| Member of | Gramineae, family Gramineae, Graminaceae, family Graminaceae, Poaceae, family Poaceae, grass family | The grasses |
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| Members | fescue, fescue grass, meadow fescue, Festuca elatior | grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns |
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| sheep fescue, sheep's fescue, Festuca ovina | cultivated for sheep pasturage in upland regions or used as a lawn grass |
| silver grass | Of Australia and New Zealand |
| Broader | monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
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| Spanish | festuca, genus festuca |
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| Catalan | festuca, Festuca, genus festuca |
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