meadow
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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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.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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Note: For many names of plants compounded with meadow, see
the particular word in the Vocabulary.
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{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.
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from
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Meadow
(1.) Heb. ha'ahu (Gen. 41:2, 18), probably an Egyptain word
transferred to the Hebrew; some kind of reed or water-plant. In
the Revised Version it is rendered "reed-grass", i.e., the sedge
or rank grass by the river side.
(2.) Heb. ma'areh (Judg. 20:33), pl., "meadows of Gibeah"
(R.V., after the LXX., "Maareh-geba"). Some have adopted the
rendering "after Gibeah had been left open." The Vulgate
translates the word "from the west."
from
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Meadow, SD
Zip code(s): 57644
Meadow, TX (town, FIPS 47316)
Location: 33.33823 N, 102.20620 W
Population (1990): 547 (212 housing units)
Area: 4.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 79345
Meadow, UT (town, FIPS 48830)
Location: 38.88680 N, 112.40593 W
Population (1990): 250 (122 housing units)
Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Meadow, TX -- U.S. town in Texas
Population (2000): 658
Housing Units (2000): 236
Land area (2000): 1.599908 sq. miles (4.143742 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.599908 sq. miles (4.143742 sq. km)
FIPS code: 47316
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 33.338336 N, 102.207772 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 79345
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Meadow, TX
Meadow
from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Meadow, UT -- U.S. town in Utah
Population (2000): 254
Housing Units (2000): 124
Land area (2000): 0.495077 sq. miles (1.282244 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.495077 sq. miles (1.282244 sq. km)
FIPS code: 48830
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 38.886764 N, 112.406698 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Meadow, UT
Meadow
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
63 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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