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GENUS FESTUCA

 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Festuca mean? 

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

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

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


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GENUS FESTUCA (noun)


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Meaning:

A genus of tufted perennial grasses of the family Gramineae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Festuca; genus Festuca

Hypernyms ("genus 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 "genus 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 fescue; sheep's fescue (cultivated for sheep pasturage in upland regions or used as a lawn grass)

silver grass (of Australia and New Zealand)

Holonyms ("genus 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)


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