mead⋅ow
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| 1. | a tract of grassland used for pasture or serving as a hayfield. |
| 2. | a tract of grassland in an upland area near the timberline. |
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| mead·ow
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n. A tract of grassland, either in its natural state or used as pasture or for growing hay. [Middle English medwe, medoue, from Old English mǣdwe, oblique case of mǣd; see mē-4 in Indo-European roots.] mead'ow·y adj. |
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| meadow | |
noun | |
| a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay [syn: hayfield] |
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Meadow Grove, NE (village, FIPS 31465)
Location: (42.030136, -97.735043)
Population (2000): 311 (162 housing units)
Area: 0.303769 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 68752
Meadow Valley, CA (CDP, FIPS 46618)
Location: (39.936921, -121.062051)
Population (2000): 575 (311 housing units)
Area: 8.487009 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 95956
Meadow Vista, CA (CDP, FIPS 46632)
Location: (39.003795, -121.029242)
Population (2000): 3,096 (1,175 housing units)
Area: 5.370119 sq mi (land), 0.196168 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 95722
Meadow Bridge, WV (town, FIPS 52780)
Location: (37.862399, -80.855169)
Population (2000): 321 (175 housing units)
Area: 0.405661 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 25976
Meadow Lake, NM (CDP, FIPS 47220)
Location: (34.803959, -106.579522)
Population (2000): 4,491 (1,543 housing units)
Area: 9.652776 sq mi (land), 0.012614 sq mi (water)
Meadow Glade, WA (CDP, FIPS 44620)
Location: (45.749169, -122.555134)
Population (2000): 2,225 (733 housing units)
Area: 5.680866 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Meadow Acres, WY (CDP, FIPS 51285)
Location: (42.860580, -106.089853)
Population (2000): 181 (70 housing units)
Area: 1.419602 sq mi (land), 0.059496 sq mi (water)
Meadow Brook, MN (township, FIPS 02141354)
Location: (46.518519, -94.555113)
Population (2000): 183 (230 housing units)
Area: 38.565119 sq mi (land), 0.351361 sq mi (water)
Meadow Lake, ND (township, FIPS 00351700)
Location: (46.757842, -98.370861)
Population (2000): 93 (32 housing units)
Area: 36.277170 sq mi (land), 0.044908 sq mi (water)
Meadow Lakes, AK (CDP, FIPS 47735)
Location: (61.599661, -149.616036)
Population (2000): 4,819 (2,003 housing units)
Area: 66.955540 sq mi (land), 3.021133 sq mi (water)
Meadow Woods, FL (CDP, FIPS 43800)
Location: (28.374852, -81.363858)
Population (2000): 11,286 (4,441 housing units)
Area: 11.373273 sq mi (land), 0.036085 sq mi (water)
Meadow Vale, KY (city, FIPS 51258)
Location: (38.283668, -85.572244)
Population (2000): 765 (285 housing units)
Area: 0.203180 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
White Meadow Lake, NJ (CDP, FIPS 80750)
Location: (40.919048, -74.516418)
Population (2000): 9,052 (3,119 housing units)
Area: 4.094857 sq mi (land), 0.519780 sq mi (water)
Meadow Lark Lake, WY (CDP, FIPS 51357)
Location: (44.179299, -107.217124)
Population (2000): 8 (46 housing units)
Area: 18.968277 sq mi (land), 0.342819 sq mi (water)
Emory-Meadow View, VA (CDP, FIPS 25800)
Location: (36.771955, -81.837249)
Population (2000): 2,266 (712 housing units)
Area: 8.877621 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Meadow, TX (CCD, FIPS 44592495)
Location: (33.336333, -102.318309)
Population (2000): 1,180 (454 housing units)
Area: 256.190138 sq mi (land), 0.888134 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 79345
Meadow, TX (town, FIPS 47316)
Location: (33.338336, -102.207772)
Population (2000): 658 (236 housing units)
Area: 1.599908 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 79345
Meadow, SD (township, FIPS 10541660)
Location: (45.502755, -102.259737)
Population (2000): 35 (24 housing units)
Area: 35.567314 sq mi (land), 0.251013 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 57644
Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA (CDP, FIPS 19406)
Location: (37.383237, -118.417027)
Population (2000): 2,702 (1,219 housing units)
Area: 3.411049 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Meadow, NC (township, FIPS 10192024)
Location: (35.308956, -78.443575)
Population (2000): 3,021 (1,300 housing units)
Area: 45.630328 sq mi (land), 0.426787 sq mi (water)
Meadow, ND (township, FIPS 04951660)
Location: (48.586112, -100.732272)
Population (2000): 39 (31 housing units)
Area: 31.050198 sq mi (land), 4.474905 sq mi (water)
Meadow, MN (township, FIPS 15941336)
Location: (46.683445, -94.965715)
Population (2000): 228 (116 housing units)
Area: 35.903722 sq mi (land), 0.575074 sq mi (water)
Meadow, IA (township, FIPS 14992904)
Location: (42.866542, -95.918658)
Population (2000): 315 (110 housing units)
Area: 35.924481 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Meadow, IA (township, FIPS 04192901)
Location: (43.213540, -95.085932)
Population (2000): 339 (132 housing units)
Area: 34.799085 sq mi (land), 0.040384 sq mi (water)
Meadow, UT (town, FIPS 48830)
Location: (38.886764, -112.406698)
Population (2000): 254 (124 housing units)
Area: 0.495077 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Meadow Grove-Jefferson, NE (precinct, FIPS 11991942)
Location: (42.039170, -97.726764)
Population (2000): 727 (326 housing units)
Area: 70.426305 sq mi (land), 0.911976 sq mi (water)
Grand Meadow, MN (city, FIPS 25010)
Location: (43.706222, -92.570493)
Population (2000): 945 (407 housing units)
Area: 0.642463 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 55936
East Meadow, NY (CDP, FIPS 22502)
Location: (40.713739, -73.555823)
Population (2000): 37,461 (12,375 housing units)
Area: 6.290658 sq mi (land), 0.012433 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 11554
Golden Meadow, LA (town, FIPS 29640)
Location: (29.388192, -90.269457)
Population (2000): 2,193 (934 housing units)
Area: 2.428470 sq mi (land), 0.462699 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 70357
Grand Meadow, MN (township, FIPS 09925028)
Location: (43.710158, -92.625030)
Population (2000): 344 (118 housing units)
Area: 35.703736 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 55936
Grand Meadow, MN (city, FIPS 09925010)
Location: (43.706222, -92.570493)
Population (2000): 945 (407 housing units)
Area: 0.642463 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 55936
Grand Meadow, IA (township, FIPS 03591602)
Location: (42.601764, -95.808699)
Population (2000): 210 (100 housing units)
Area: 36.395560 sq mi (land), 0.028481 sq mi (water)
Grand Meadow, SD (township, FIPS 09925180)
Location: (43.710515, -96.960484)
Population (2000): 296 (99 housing units)
Area: 35.556564 sq mi (land), 0.106656 sq mi (water)
South Meadow, ND (township, FIPS 10574260)
Location: (48.495792, -103.070358)
Population (2000): 35 (20 housing units)
Area: 35.698383 sq mi (land), 0.224290 sq mi (water)
Big Meadow, ND (township, FIPS 10506860)
Location: (48.603452, -103.091876)
Population (2000): 25 (20 housing units)
Area: 34.913308 sq mi (land), 1.009977 sq mi (water)
Green Meadow, FL (CDP, FIPS 27537)
Location: (26.053367, -80.366795)
Population (2000): 1,874 (583 housing units)
Area: 2.089875 sq mi (land), 0.006473 sq mi (water)
Green Meadow, MN (township, FIPS 10725766)
Location: (47.376032, -96.376096)
Population (2000): 114 (49 housing units)
Area: 36.612032 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Grand Meadow, IA (township, FIPS 04391605)
Location: (43.040598, -91.541729)
Population (2000): 557 (205 housing units)
Area: 36.128351 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Paramount-Long Meadow, MD (CDP, FIPS 59787)
Location: (39.682795, -77.697175)
Population (2000): 2,722 (1,010 housing units)
Area: 2.776208 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
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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. 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.Cite This Source
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. 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. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The American bittern. See Stake-driver. (b) The American coot (Fulica). (c) The clapper rail. Meadow lark (Zo["o]l.), 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 (Zo["o]l.), any mouse of the genus Arvicola, as the common American species A. riparia; -- called also field mouse, and field vole. Meadow mussel (Zo["o]l.), 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 (Zo["o]l.), 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 (Zo["o]l.), the common or jack snipe.Cite This Source
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."
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