Grass or other vegetation eaten as food by grazing animals.
Ground on which such vegetation grows, especially that which is set aside for use by domestic grazing animals.
The feeding or grazing of animals.
v.
pas·tured, pas·tur·ing, pas·tures
v.
tr.
To herd (animals) into a pasture to graze.
To provide (animals) with pasturage. Used of land.
To graze on (land or vegetation).
To use (land) as pasture.
v.
intr. To graze in a pasture.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin pāstūra, from Latin pāstus, past participle of pāscere, to feed; see pā- in Indo-European roots.] pas'tur·a·ble adj., pas'tur·er n.
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