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Meadow   /mˈɛdˌoʊ/   Listen
noun
Meadow  n.  
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.


adjective
Meadow  adj.  Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow. "Fat meadow ground." Note: 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.





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"Meadow" Quotes from Famous Books



... in which he was entitled to a place. Shielded by a shrubbery of sleeping goldenrod, he stole down the slope, making his way to the lane along which the beasts went out to pasture and came home. Following the trail, he passed a meadow, a potato-field, and a patch of Indian corn, till the scent of flowers told him he was coming on a garden. A minute later, low, velvety domes of clipped yew rose in the foreground, and he knew himself to be in touch with the civilization ...
— The Wild Olive • Basil King
... drop of drink I'm sure my gullet swallowed. At night I came to a stony town called Stone. Where I knew none, nor was I known of none: I therefore through the streets held on my pace, Some two miles farther to some resting place: At last I spied a meadow newly mowed, The hay was rotten, the ground half o'erflowed: We made a breach, and entered horse and man, There our pavilion, we to pitch began, Which we erected with green broom and hay, To expel the cold, and keep the rain away; The sky all muffled in a cloud 'gan lower, ...
— The Pennyles Pilgrimage - Or The Money-lesse Perambulation of John Taylor • John Taylor
... hills, I have earned life's calm. The sun that smiles on New England's streams Bids human conflicts forever cease. Let those who must, writhe in their dreams At thought of days with horror blended. For me, the meadow's gentle balm— I am of New England—where all ...
— The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 • Various
... counsel of the woman Entered his heart. She stripped off a garment, Clothed him with one. Another garment She kept on herself. She took hold of his hand. Like [a god(?)] she brought him To the fertile meadow, The place of the sheepfolds. In that place they received food; [For he, Enkidu, whose birthplace was the mountain,] [With the gazelles he was accustomed to eat herbs,] [With the cattle to drink water,] [With the water beings he ...
— An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic • Anonymous
... would certainly be more comfortable," said Shin Shira. "Come into the meadow just over there, and I'll see if I can ...
— The Mysterious Shin Shira • George Edward Farrow


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