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- noun Plural form of
grainfield .
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Examples
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Mostly that means dry, harvested grainfields where a crippled bird has no place to hide or dive.
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And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain.
Huckabee: I'm Against Illegal Immigration, But I'm Not A Lunatic About It 2009
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As if that weren't bad enough, we'd be driving through some grainfields, a two hour drive to our destination, and I'd be ready to fall asleep because basically in a car, I'm either driving or wanting to nap.
Archive 2008-05-01 Bardiac 2008
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But it has less desirable relatives that have also appropriated its name – corn cockle, a hairy weed found in grainfields; corn borer, an insect that likes corn as much as we do; and corn smut, which has nothing to do with dirty pictures, but everything to do with a particularly nasty-looking black fungus that grows on corn stalks.
Corny But True 2008
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Euphorbia includes rhizomatous weeds of grainfields (the spurges), large shrubs like Poinsettia, small bushes (crown of thorns) and cactus-like forms.
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Pheasants, quail, and Huns congregate around the irrigated grainfields, and chukars live in the rocky high ground.
The Six Best (Wild) Bird Hunting Lodges in North America 2005
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Hotspots: Oak flats and grainfields are top food sources.
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Also focus on young clear-cuts and grainfields because winter deer will build their existence around these food sources.
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Then I steer the company truck over dirt roads that go on for miles and miles without passing a house, hazy gold cordgrass and grainfields yawning into the horizon; checking groundwater for ammonia spikes and algae blooms; turning to the empty seat beside me, telling my stories.
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Cold weather forces ducks and geese off eastern Colorado's reservoirs and onto the wide, shallow South Platte River where they rest between forays into the irrigated grainfields.
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