Meadow — Defs

01 n. A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.

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.

02 a. Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow.

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Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow.

Phrases & compounds

Meadow beauty — Same as Deergrass.

Meadow foxtail — 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.

Meadow hen — The American bittern. See Stake-driver.

Meadow mouse — any mouse of the genus Arvicola, as the common American species Arvicola riparia; -- called also field mouse, and field vole.

Meadow mussel — an American ribbed mussel (Modiola plicatula), very abundant in salt marshes.

Meadow ore — bog-iron ore , a kind of limonite.

Meadow parsnip — See under Parsnip.

Meadow pink — See under Pink.

Meadow pipit — a small singing bird of the genus Anthus, as Anthus pratensis, of Europe.

Meadow rue — a delicate early plant, of the genus Thalictrum, having compound leaves and numerous white flowers. There are many species.

Meadow saffron — See under Saffron.

Meadow sage — See under Sage.

Meadow saxifrage — an umbelliferous plant of Europe (Silaus pratensis), somewhat resembling fennel.

Meadow snipe — the common or jack snipe.