a perennial grass that is a valuable pasture and fodder species (genus Festuca, family Gramineae) an annual grass that typically occurs on drier soils such as on dunes and heathland (genus Vulpia, family Gramineae) 羊茅(羊茅属,禾本科) 乌尔波草(乌尔波草属,禾本科)
语源
Middle English festu, festue 'straw, twig', from Old French festu, based on Latin festuca 'stalk, straw'. The change of -t- to -c- occurred in the 16th cent.; the current sense dates from the mid 18th cent