Meadow /(?)/
Mead·ow
Meadow
n.
- A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.
- 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
a.
- 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.