PASTURE

Pasture

Pasture is land used for grazing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep or swine. The vegetation of tended pasture, forage, consists mainly of grasses, with an interspersion of legumes and other forbs. Pasture is typically grazed throughout the summer, in contrast to meadow which is used for grazing only after being mown to make hay for winter fodder.

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pasture

Noun

  1. land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.
  2. Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
  3. Food, nourishment.

Verb

  1. To move animals into a pasture to graze.
  2. To graze.
  3. To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
    The farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.


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