Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In phytogeography, land naturally covered with grass, viewed œcologically.
- noun In agriculture, land kept perpetually under grass, as contrasted with land which is alternately under grass and tillage; permanent pasture.
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Examples
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Each cycle has associates, rabbites and pheasant in the grass-land begin to be replaced by deer and turkeys as associates of the shrubs and fast growing trees.
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Each cycle has associates, rabbites and pheasant in the grass-land begin to be replaced by deer and turkeys as associates of the shrubs and fast growing trees.
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Look 'm tree; look' m ground belong tree; look 'm all fella bridge; look' m copra-house; look 'm grass-land; look' m river; look 'm whale-boat -- my word, plenty big fella look' m too much.
Chapter 12 2010
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So Robin, seeing him a well-judging civil gentleman, took the freedom to ask him whether he could let him know if there was any grass-land to be let in that neighbourhood, for the temporary accommodation of his drove.
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A house, centuries old, deserted and falling to pieces, its woods and gardens long since grass-land or ploughed up, the Rivers Ribble and Darwen glancing below it, and a vague haze of smoke, against which not even the supernatural prescience of the first Stuart could foresee a counter-blast, hinting at steam-power, powerful in two distances.
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A house, centuries old, deserted and falling to pieces, its woods and gardens long since grass-land or ploughed up, the Rivers Ribble and Darwen glancing below it, and a vague haze of smoke, against which not even the supernatural prescience of the first Stuart could foresee a counter-blast, hinting at steam-power, powerful in two distances.
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Beneath his gaze the dew-fogs dipped, and crept to the hollow places; then stole away in line and column, holding skirts, and clinging subtly at the sheltering corners, where rock hung over grass-land; while the brave lines of the hills came forth, one beyond other gliding.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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Pursuing the path over a stony valley lying between parallel ranges of hill, we halted at about 10 A.M. in a large patch of grass-land, the produce of the rain, which for some days past had been fertilising the hill-tops.
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They were now on level ground, and the road after much winding lay straight ahead through grass-land sprinkled with tall trees, outliers of the approaching woods.
The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965
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The path broadened and they came out upon grass-land drained by dykes.
Death of a Delft Blue Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1964
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