a. Obs. [f. as prec. + -OUS.] a. Straw-like. b. (See quot. 1656; ? a mistake.)
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., II. iv. 81. If we speake of strawes or festucous divisions lightly drawen over with oyle.
1656–81. Blount, Glossogr., Festucous, belonging to a young tender sprig or stalk of a tree or herb from the root upward.
