OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 16764

meadow

/ˈmɛd.əʊ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
herbazal • hierbazal • pastizal • prado • vega • yerbazal • zacatal
A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.
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[…]belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled a…
pajonal • vega
Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi…
the salt meadows near Newark Bay
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