FESTUCA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Festuca mean? 

• FESTUCA (noun)
  The noun FESTUCA has 1 sense:

1. a genus of tufted perennial grasses of the family Gramineae

  Familiarity information: FESTUCA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FESTUCA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of tufted perennial grasses of the family Gramineae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Festuca; genus Festuca

Hypernyms ("Festuca" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Festuca"):

fescue; fescue grass; Festuca elatior; meadow fescue (grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns)

Festuca ovina; sheep's fescue; sheep fescue (cultivated for sheep pasturage in upland regions or used as a lawn grass)

silver grass (of Australia and New Zealand)

Holonyms ("Festuca" is a member of...):

family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)