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Webster 1913 Edition
Meadow
Mead′ow
,Noun.
1.
A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.
2.
Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea;
as, the salt
. meadows
near Newark BayMead′ow
,Adj.
Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow.
“Fat meadow ground.” Milton.
☞ For many names of plants compounded with meadow, see the particular word in the Vocabulary.
Meadow beauty
. (Bot.)
Same as
– Deergrass
. Meadow foxtail
(Bot.)
, a valuable pasture grass (
– Alopecurus pratensis
) resembling timothy, but with softer spikes. Meadow hay
, a coarse grass, or true sedge, growing in uncultivated swamp or river meadow; – used as fodder or bedding for cattle, packing for ice, etc.
[Local, U. S.]
– Meadow hen
. (Zool.)
(a)
The American bittern
. See Stake-driver
. (b)
The American coot (
Fulica
). (c)
The clapper rail.
– Meadow mouse
(Zool.)
, any mouse of the genus
– Arvicola
, as the common American species Arvicola riparia
; – called also field mouse
, and field vole
. Meadow mussel
(Zool.)
, an American ribbed mussel (
– Modiola plicatula
), very abundant in salt marshes. Meadow ore
(Min.)
, bog-iron ore , a kind of limonite.
– Meadow parsnip
. (Bot.)
See under
– Parsnip
. Meadow pink
. (Bot.)
See under
– Pink
. Meadow pipit
(Zool.)
, a small singing bird of the genus
– Anthus
, as Anthus pratensis
, of Europe. Meadow rue
(Bot.)
, a delicate early plant, of the genus
– Thalictrum
, having compound leaves and numerous white flowers. There are many species. Meadow saffron
. (Bot.)
See under
– Saffron
. Meadow sage
. (Bot.)
See under
– Sage
. Meadow saxifrage
(Bot.)
, an umbelliferous plant of Europe (
– Silaus pratensis
), somewhat resembling fennel. Meadow snipe
(Zool.)
, the common or jack snipe.
Webster 1828 Edition
Meadow
MEADOW
,Noun.
The word is said to be applied in Great Britain to land somewhat watery, but covered with grass.
Meadow means pasture or grass land, annually mown for hay; but more particularly, land too moist for cattle to graze on in winter, without spoiling the sward.
[Mead is used chiefly in poetry.]
Definition 2024
Meadow
meadow
meadow
See also: Meadow
English
Noun
meadow (plural meadows)
- A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay; an area of low-lying vegetation, especially near a river.
- 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapter1:
- But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, […].
- 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict:
- […] belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards, […]
- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind:
- Our part of the veranda did not hang over the gorge, but edged the meadow where half a dozen large and sleek horses had stopped grazing to join us.
- 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapter1:
- Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
- the salt meadows near Newark Bay
- 2013 January 1, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 59:
- European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
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Translations
field or pasture
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