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meadow (med′ō)
noun
- a piece of grassland, esp. one used as a pasture or whose grass is grown for use as hay
- low, level grassland near a stream, lake, etc.
Etymology: ME medow < OE mædwe, oblique case of mæd < Gmc *mædwa- < IE base *mē-, to mow
Related Forms:
- meadowy mead′·owy adjective
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meadow
n.
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Converse of object
- flower-strewn: Lower down, the trek leads through verdant alpine valleys with cascading streams, pretty hamlets and flower-strewn meadows.
Adjective modifier
- alpine: Day 7 Thursday Ride the alpine meadows of Boulder Mountain.
Modifies a noun
- pipit: Meadow Pipits are reported to undergo a partial molt in the first three months of the year.
Noun used with modifier
- wildflower: You may wish to sow or plant a wildflower meadow.
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A painted meadow, or a purling stream.
When Winter scourged the meadow and the hill And in the withered leafage worked his will, Then water shrank, and shuddered, and stood still,ö Then built himself a magic house of glass, Irised with memories of flowers and grass, Wherein to sit and watch the fury pass.
I think you will like them, when you shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
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