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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



... down, my maids so small, And sit you down my little foot boy; For I the Runic note will play, Till field and meadow bloom with joy.” ...
— Ermeline - a ballad - - - Translator: George Borrow • Thomas J. Wise
... of this interview you would not forget to make mention of the noble entertainment given by the Queen my mother, on an island, with the grand dances, and the form of the salon, which seemed appropriated by nature for such a purpose, it being a large meadow in the middle of the island, in the shape of an oval, surrounded on every aide by tall spreading trees. In this meadow the Queen my mother had disposed a circle of niches, each of them large enough ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... in both articles a considerable business of transmarine exportation. A homely professional treatise of this period compares Italy to a great fruit-garden; and the pictures which a contemporary poet gives of his beautiful native land, where the well-watered meadow, the luxuriant corn-field, the pleasant vine-covered hill are fringed by the dark line of the olive-trees—where the "ornament" of the land, smiling in varied charms, cherishes the loveliest gardens in its bosom ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen
... meadow on the right bank of the Thames, 36 m. SW. of London, where King John signed the ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... of perfected life. The little aspirations of the morning, the fascinations of nature, had given place to a content full of warmth. Miss Ellwell took a winding wood-road that led first across the meadow, then over the pine-needles to a little pond. As they sauntered along Thornton watched his companion draw in the saturated air of the summer afternoon, as if consciously living thereon. She seemed to him detached, like a plant that drew ...
— The Man Who Wins • Robert Herrick


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