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.
&fist; 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.
(Zoöl.) (a) The American bittern. See Stake-driver. (b)
The American coot (Fulica). (c) The clapper rail. -- Meadow lark (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.),
any mouse of the genus
Arvicola, as the common American species A. riparia; --
called also field mouse, and field vole. -- Meadow mussel
(Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.),
the common or jack snipe.
Mead"ow (?), n. [AS. meady; akin to m&aemacr;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.
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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