red fescue


red fescue

noun

Definition of RED FESCUE

: a perennial pasture and turf fescue (Festuca rubra) of Eurasia and North America that has creeping rootstocks and reddish lemmas and sheaths

First Known Use of RED FESCUE

1900

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