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red fescue

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

a grass plant, Festuca rubra, with green, red, or blue-green flowers, found in Europe, Asia and North America.

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9 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: festuca rogenca — Festuca rubra
  • Dutch: rood zwenkgras — Festuca rubra
  • French: fétuque rouge — Festuca rubra
  • German: Gewöhnlicher Rot-Schwingel — Festuca rubra
  • Greenlandic: ivigaq aappaluartoq — Festuca rubra
  • Icelandic: rauðvingull — Festuca rubra
  • Irish: feisciú dearg — Festuca rubra
  • Russian: овся́ница кра́сная (ovsjánica krásnaja) — Festuca rubra
  • Welsh: peiswellt coch — Festuca rubra