What is "sheep's fescue"

Fescue \Fes"cue\ (f[e^]s"k[-u]), n. [OE. festu, OF. festu, F. f['e]tu, fr. L. festuca stalk, straw.]

1. A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read. ``Pedantic fescue.''
   --Sterne.

   To come under the fescue of an imprimatur.
   --Milton.

2. An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. [Obs.]
   --Chapman.

3. The style of a dial. [Obs.]

4. (Bot.) A grass of the genus Festuca.

   Fescue grass (Bot.), a genus of grasses ( Festuca) containing several species of importance in agriculture. Festuca ovina is sheep's fescue; F. elatior is meadow fescue.

n. cultivated for sheep pasturage in upland regions or used as a lawn grass [syn: sheep fescue, Festuca ovina]