meadow
6 definitions found
meadow - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Meadow \Mead"ow\, n. [AS. meady; akin to m[=ae]d, and to G.
matte; prob. also to E. mow. See Mow to cut (grass), and
cf. 2d Mead.]
1. A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown
for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.
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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 Bay.
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Meadow \Mead"ow\, a.
Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow;
produced, growing, or living in, a meadow. "Fat meadow
ground." --Milton.
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Note: For many names of plants compounded with meadow, see
the particular word in the Vocabulary.
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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.
[1913 Webster] meadowgrass
meadow - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
meadow
n 1: a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into
hay [syn: hayfield, meadow]
meadow - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :
Meadow
(1.) Heb. ha'ahu (Gen. 41:2, 18), probably an Egyptain word
transferred to the Hebrew; some kind of reed or water-plant. In
the Revised Version it is rendered "reed-grass", i.e., the sedge
or rank grass by the river side.
(2.) Heb. ma'areh (Judg. 20:33), pl., "meadows of Gibeah"
(R.V., after the LXX., "Maareh-geba"). Some have adopted the
rendering "after Gibeah had been left open." The Vulgate
translates the word "from the west."
meadow - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Meadow, SD
Zip code(s): 57644
Meadow, TX (town, FIPS 47316)
Location: 33.33823 N, 102.20620 W
Population (1990): 547 (212 housing units)
Area: 4.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 79345
Meadow, UT (town, FIPS 48830)
Location: 38.88680 N, 112.40593 W
Population (1990): 250 (122 housing units)
Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
meadow - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "meadow":
baygall, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, campo,
everglade, fen, fenland, field, glade, grass, grass veld,
grassland, grazing, haugh, haughland, hog wallow, holm, lea, llano,
marais, marish, marsh, marshland, mead, meadow land, mere, mire,
moor, moorland, morass, moss, mud, mud flat, pampa, pampas, park,
pasturage, pasture, pasture land, peat bog, prairie, quagmire,
quicksand, range, salt marsh, savanna, slob land, slough, sough,
steppe, steppeland, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, taiga, vega,
veld, wallow, wash
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