festuca ovina

1. 1.

   cultivated for sheep pasturage in upland regions or used as a lawn grass

   Synonymssheep fescuesheep's fescue

   Broadergrass

   Part ofFestuca

Questions about festuca ovina

What does festuca ovina mean?

festuca ovina means "cultivated for sheep pasturage in upland regions or used as a lawn grass".

What is another word for festuca ovina?

Close synonyms include sheep fescue, sheep's fescue. 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 festuca ovina a common word?

festuca ovina 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.