/fes"kyooh/ , n.
1. Also called fescue grass . any grass of the genus Festuca, some species of which are cultivated for pasture or lawns.
2. a pointer, as a straw or slender stick, used to point out the letters in teaching children to read.
[ 1350-1400; earlier festue, ME festu festucum, for L festuca stalk, straw ]