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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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Note: For many names of plants compounded with meadow, see the particular word in the Vocabulary. [1913 Webster]

{Meadow beauty}. (Bot.) Same as Deergrass.

{Meadow foxtail} (Bot.), a valuable pasture grass ({Alopecurus pratensis}) resembling timothy, but with softer spikes.

{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 mouse} (Zo["o]l.), any mouse of the genus Arvicola, as the common American species {Arvicola 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 {Anthus 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. [1913 Webster]

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Bible Dictionary

Meadow

In (genesis 41:2,18) meadow appears to be an Egyptian termmeaning some kind of flag or waterplant, as its use in (job8:11) (authorized version "flag") seems to show.

In (judges 20:33) the sense of the Hebrew word translatedmeadow is doubly uncertain. The most plausible interpretationis that of the Peshito-Syriac, which by a slight differencein the vowel-points makes the word mearah, "the cave."