Meadow
Meadow , noun
[Anglo-Saxon meady; akin to mad, and to German matte; prob. also to English mow. See Mow to cut (grass), and compare 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.
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.
Meadow , adjective
Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow.
Fat meadow ground.
For many names of plants compounded with meadow, see the particular word in the Vocabulary.
Collocations (15)
Meadow foxtail (Botany) , 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, United States]
Meadow hen (Zoology) , (a) The American bittern (b) The American coot (Fulica). (c) The clapper rail.
Meadow mouse (Zoology) , any mouse of the genus Arvicola, as the common American species Arvicola riparia; -- called also field mouse, and field vole.
Meadow mussel (Zoology) , an American ribbed mussel (Modiola plicatula), very abundant in salt marshes.
Meadow ore (Mineralogy) , bog-iron ore, a kind of limonite.
Meadow pipit (Zoology) , a small singing bird of the genus Anthus, as Anthus pratensis, of Europe.
Meadow rue (Botany) , a delicate early plant, of the genus Thalictrum, having compound leaves and numerous white flowers. There are many species.
Meadow saxifrage (Botany) , an umbelliferous plant of Europe (Silaus pratensis), somewhat resembling fennel.
Meadow snipe (Zoology) , the common or jack snipe.