festucine

comparative more festucine · superlative most festucine

1. obsoleteOf a straw colour; greenish-yellow.

   […] laid Upon thy pouting lips the drench of wine! Above thy brow they massed the festucine Tresses and bound them with a mitra's braid;

   1913, John Myers O'Hara, “Heliogabalus”, in Pagan Sonnets, page 10

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   For here the true Cicada is not bred, but certain it is, that out of this, some kind of Locuſt doth proceed, for herein may be diſcovered a little inſect of a feſtucine or pale green, reſembling in all parts a Locuſt, or what we call a Graſhopper.

   1658, Thomas Browne, Pſeudoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into Very many Received Tenents, and commonly preſumed Truths, edition 3, Book 5, Chapter III, page 200

   […]; and during the controversy and distracted attention, a beautiful young lady, habited in a black silk pelisse, a festucine dress, and an envious little straw bonnet, stepped out of the opposite side of the coach.

   1853, F. H. Stauffer, “Rose May, the new School-Mistress”, in The Family Fire-Side Book, page 314

1. uncountablechemistryLoline, an alkaloid with the formula C₈H₁₄N₂O.

   MS and NMR spectra of loline from L. cunneatum and festucine from Festuca arundinacea showed that both alkaloids are identical.

   1991, Abdel-Fattah M. Rizk, Poisonous plant contamination of edible plants, page 96