water meadow
a meadow kept fertile by flooding.
Origin of water meadow
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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. BensonAgain with a dull thunder of hoofs the horses gallop over the soft water-meadow.
Sir Nigel | Arthur Conan DoyleThe 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 JefferiesThere 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 HowardA tenant near Blarney, in County Cork, was seen to be ploughing up a valuable water meadow.
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent | S.M. Hussey
British Dictionary definitions for water meadow
a meadow that remains fertile by being periodically flooded by a stream
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