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MEADOWS
Noun
meadows
plural of meadow
Proper noun
Meadows
A surname.
A town in South Australia.
A town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
A small unincorporated community in McLean County, Illinois.
An unincorporated community in Prince George's County, Maryland.
Source: Wiktionary
MEADOW
Mead"ow, n. Etym: [AS. meady; akin to m, 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.
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.
Mead"ow, a.
Definition: Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow. "Fat meadow ground." Milton.
Note: For many names of plants compounded with meadow, see the particular word in the Vocabulary. Meadow beauty. (Bot.) Same as Deergrass.
– Meadow foxtail (Bot.), a valuable pasture grass (Alopecurus pratensis) resembling timothy, but with softer spikes.
– Meadow grass (Bot.), a name given to several grasses of the genus Poa, common in meadows, and of great value for nay and for pasture. See Grass.
– 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. (Zoƶl.) (a) The American bittern. See Stake-driver. (b) The American coot (Fulica). (c) The clapper rail.
– Meadow lark (Zoƶl.), any species of Sturnella, a genus of American birds allied to the starlings. The common species (S. magna) has a yellow breast with a black crescent.
– Meadow mouse (Zoƶl.), any mouse of the genus Arvicola, as the common American species A. riparia; -- called also field mouse, and field vole.
– Meadow mussel (Zoƶl.), 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 (Zoƶl.), a small singing bird of the genus Anthus, as A. 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 (Zoƶl.), the common or jack snipe.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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