water meadow


noun
  1. a meadow kept fertile by flooding.

Origin of water meadow

1
First recorded in 1725–35

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How to use water meadow in a sentence

  • Then, leading the talk away from anything so intimate to him, "Ah, that delicious stretch of water-meadow!"

    Mammon and Co. | E. F. Benson
  • Again with a dull thunder of hoofs the horses gallop over the soft water-meadow.

    Sir Nigel | Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Baron listened, and then said he must go and see that a new hatch was put in the brook to irrigate the water-meadow.

    After London | Richard Jefferies
  • There is a water meadow with which I am familiar, where large numbers resort annually for the purpose of procreation.

    Territory in Bird Life | H. Eliot Howard
  • A tenant near Blarney, in County Cork, was seen to be ploughing up a valuable water meadow.

British Dictionary definitions for water meadow

water meadow

noun
  1. a meadow that remains fertile by being periodically flooded by a stream

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