MEADOW • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Meadow

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/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.

See images of 'Meadow'

Etymology of 'Meadow'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Meadow" Quotes from Famous Books

... of clanging bells, of frowsy women, of men who dart around corners with pitchers, their coat collars turned up to hide the absence of linen. One day Fanny found herself at Fifty-first street, and there before her lay Washington Park, with its gracious meadow, its Italian garden, its rose walk, its lagoon, and drooping willows. But then, that was Chicago. All contrast. The Illinois Central railroad puffed contemptuous cinders into the great blue lake. And almost in the shadow of the City ...

— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber

... to which surrounding circumstances in the shape of sights and sounds were so irrelevant that they were to a certain degree entirely safe, even when guided and controlled by an amateur hand. As they passed some meadow-land, somebody behind a hedge fired a gun; Mr. Buller was frightened, ...

— The Best American Humorous Short Stories • Various

... now? Want me to go back and get the wire nippers so we can let them poor little sheep down into the meadow? Maybe we better ask the herders down to have some of Patsy's grub, too; I don't believe they had time to cook much breakfast. And it wouldn't be a bad idea to haze our own stuff clear off the range. I'm afraid Dunk's sheep ...

— Flying U Ranch • B. M. Bower

... snowy wilderness. Three-quarters of a mile away, though to Rod apparently not more than a third of that distance from where they stood, half a dozen animals were disporting themselves in a singular fashion in a meadow-like opening between the mountain and a range of forest. It was Rod's first real glimpse of that wonderful animal of the North of which he had read so much, the caribou—commonly known beyond the Sixtieth ...

— The Wolf Hunters - A Tale of Adventure in the Wilderness • James Oliver Curwood

... week as I look through the big, open barn door I see a marsh hawk beating about low over the fields. He, or rather she (for I see by the greater size and browner color that it is the female), moves very slowly and deliberately on level, flexible wing, now over the meadow, now over the oat or millet field, then above the pasture and the swamp, tacking and turning, her eye bent upon the ground, and no doubt sending fear or panic through the heart of many a nibbling mouse or sitting bird. She occasionally hesitates or stops in her flight and drops upon the ground, ...

— The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers • John Burroughs

Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com