fescue

Questions about fescue

What does fescue mean?

fescue means "grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns".

How many syllables are in fescue?

fescue has 2 syllables: fes-cue. The stress falls on "fes". In IPA it is /ˈfɛˌskju/.

What is another word for fescue?

Close synonyms include fescue grass, meadow fescue, Festuca elatior. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fescue a common word?

fescue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fescue?

3 words rhyme with fescue. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.