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grazing Definition

graz·ing (grāziŋ)

noun

  1. land to graze on; pasture
  2. Informal the eating of snacks all day long or the eating of small portions of different foods

grazing Synonyms

grazing

modif.

  1. Browsing

    battening, cropping, feeding, gnawing, nibbling, biting, uprooting, pasturing, pulling grass, foraging, eating, champing, munching, crunching, masticating, ruminating.

  2. Keeping livestock on the range

    herding, pasturing, feeding, ranging, running cattle, running stock, stocking, fattening.

grazing Usage Examples

Preposition: on

  • pasture: Current factors causing loss or decline Lack of grazing on wet pasture or dune slacks leading to growth of scrub or coarse grassland.

Adjective modifier

  • rough: Bracken fern is a weed species mainly found on rough grazing.
  • rotational: Growth is suppressed but rotational grazing does not kill the plants.
  • intensive: Intensive grazing by animals in some places has caused changes in the variety of grasses.

Modifies a noun

  • marsh: The majority occur in arable land with some in coastal grazing marsh.
  • cattle: There were also many Yellow Wagtails feeding around the grazing cattle, plus one Little Egret.
  • pasture: The parkland character is of grazing pastures fringed with beech woods.
  • livestock: Most of the agricultural land within the Park is used for grazing livestock.
  • rye: The only option remaining to give reliably satisfactory results is field beans, although you may get results from grazing rye in milder areas.
  • sheep: The scenery out of the bedroom window was very nice - looking across fields of grazing sheep to the hills at the back.

Noun used with modifier

  • sheep: Upland example: reducing sheep grazing on a Cumbrian hill farm.
  • cattle: The plan was to ride to check on the cattle grazing on the summer pastures.
  • livestock: You are sure to have company from the local livestock grazing next to the roadway.
  • Cattle: Cattle grazing reduces thistle numbers more than sheep grazing.
  • reindeer: I notice nothing is said about a large herd of reindeer grazing on the plateau, they don't live on fresh air.
  • cow: Eventually the mansions give way to a more pastoral vision of cows grazing under willow trees.

Preposition: in

  • woodland: There are wild deer grazing in the ancient woodlands - an idyllic setting for a self-catering holiday cottage.

Preposition: of

  • livestock: A more attractive landscape through managed grazing of livestock on the hills.

Preposition: by

  • sheep: Close grazing by sheep reduces the sand trapping ability of the dune grasses.
  • livestock: However grazing by any domestic livestock will reduce the number of tree seedlings which establish.

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