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meadow 音标拼音: [m'ɛd ,o]
n. 草地,牧场 草地,牧场 meadow n 1: a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay [ synonym: { hayfield}, { meadow}] Meadow \ Mead" ow\, n. [ AS. meady; akin to m[= ae] d, and to G. matte; prob. also to E. mow. See { Mow} to cut ( grass), and cf. 2d { Mead}.] 1. A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster]
Meadow \ Mead" ow\, a. Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow. " Fat meadow ground." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Note: For many names of plants compounded with meadow, see the particular word in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster] meadowgrass63 Moby Thesaurus words for " meadow": baygall, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, campo, everglade, fen, fenland, field, glade, grass, grass veld, grassland, grazing, haugh, haughland, hog wallow, holm, lea, llano, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, mead, meadow land, mere, mire, moor, moorland, morass, moss, mud, mud flat, pampa, pampas, park, pasturage, pasture, pasture land, peat bog, prairie, quagmire, quicksand, range, salt marsh, savanna, slob land, slough, sough, steppe, steppeland, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, taiga, vega, veld, wallow, wash |
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