(n.) A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
(n.) An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
(n.) The style of a dial.
(n.) A grass of the genus Festuca.
(v. i. & t.) To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fescue was less than 5% infected with Acremonium coenophialum.
(2) Two additional studies were conducted to determine the effects of lysocellin and monensin on macromineral apparent absorption and retention in steers fed tall fescue greenchop.
(3) Studies were conducted to determine the specificity and cause of altered pituitary hormone secretion when ewes ingest endophyte-infected (Acremonium coenophialum) GI-307 tall fescue (toxic fescue).
(5) Experimental diets consisted of Kentucky-31 tall fescue hay, soybean meal and a semi-purified concentrate mixture in ratios of 95:5:0, 76:4:20, 57:3:40 and 38:2:60; NaHCO3 represented 0 or 7.5% of the concentrate mixture.
(6) The study reported here was part of a long-term investigation of the effects of genotype on growth, reproduction, and metabolism in cattle grazing common Bermuda grass and endophyte-infected fescue pastures.
(7) This study suggests that a quipazine-metoclopramide regimen may have therapeutic potential for combating ergotlike fescue and other similar toxicities observed in cattle grazing on endophyte-infected pasture grasses.
(8) (tall fescue), and provides biological protection and enhanced fitness to its host, but its anti-mammalian ergot alkaloids detract from the usefulness of tall fescue as forage for livestock.
(9) Rats fed diets containing tall fescue seed infested (E+) with the endophytic fungus Acremonium coenophialum had lower (P less than .05) feed intakes and weight gains than did rats fed diets containing uninfested (E-) tall fescue seed.
(10) Fescue intake (percentage of BW) was lowest (P less than .05) for C with I (1.56) and higher (P less than .05) for WS with NI (2.63) than WS with I (2.12); fescue intake for C with NI (2.33) was intermediate (P greater than .10) to WS with NI and WS with I.
(11) Twelve Hereford heifers were used in a grazing experiment to determine intake and digestibility of tall fescue forage treated with the plant growth regulator mefluidide.
(12) ), 2) tall fescue-red clover (Trifolium pratense L.), or 3) tall fescue-alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) or were barn-fed, 4) tall fescue hay, 5) orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.)-alfalfa hay, or 6) tall fescue silage from late October to early April during each of 5 yr.
(13) Steers grazing mefluidide-treated forage had greater (P less than .05) total weight gains than did steers grazing untreated tall fescue during a 168-d study (86 vs 69 kg).
(14) HAL evoked significant PRL secretion unaccompanied by any GH or TSH effect in both toxic fescue and OG ewes.
(15) Bermudagrass was offered during d 1 to 45 and tall fescue during d 46 to 90 in Exp.
(17) Neurohormonal imbalances of prolactin and melatonin, with restricted blood flow to internal organs, may be the principal causes of aberrant reproduction, growth, and maturation in livestock consuming endophyte-infected tall fescue.
(18) To evaluate effects of previous forage systems on feedlot performance, yearling Hereford steers (average initial weight of 249 kg) were grazed on tall fescue (TF), smooth bromegrass-red clover (BG-RC) or orchardgrass-red clover (OG-RC) pastures before finishing.
(19) All systems produced satisfactory cattle performance, but fescue-ladino clover combined with fescue-red clover required minimum inputs of harvested feed and maintained excellent stands during 6 yr.
(20) The highest degree of sensitivity was observed for cocksfoot, meadow fescue, meadow foxtail, rye grass, timothy and Yorkshire fog.