English

Adjective

festucine ‎(comparative more festucine, superlative most festucine)

1. (obsolete) Of a straw colour; greenish-yellow.
   • 1658, Thomas Browne, Pſeudoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into Very many Received Tenents, and commonly preſumed Truths, edition 3, Book 5, Chapter III, page 200:

     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.

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

     […] ; 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.

   • 1913, John Myers O'Hara, Heliogabalus, in Pagan Sonnets, page 10:

     […] 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;

Noun

festucine ‎(uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) Loline, an alkaloid with the formula C₈H₁₄N₂O.
   • 1991, Abdel-Fattah M. Rizk, Poisonous plant contamination of edible plants, page 96:

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

See also

• norloline, lolidine