water meadow

American  

noun

1. a meadow kept fertile by flooding.

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water meadow British  

noun

1. a meadow that remains fertile by being periodically flooded by a stream

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Etymology

Origin of water meadow

First recorded in 1725–35

Example Sentences

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water meadow

Woundwort, on the other hand, had taken his rabbits into the ditch and then made use of it to get them down to the water meadow, unexposed to further attack from Kehaar.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

There was no sound close by, but behind and below them, from the water meadow on the nearer bank of the Test, came faintly the shrill, incessant fussing of a pair of sandpipers.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

We behold, as Agas enthusiastically writes: "A citie seated, rich in everything, Girt with wood and water, meadow, corn, and hill."

From Oxford by Lang, Andrew

Nicely he had cleared it for them all; and the pent-up tide of equestrianism now poured over the park like the flood of an irrigated water meadow.

From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Surtees, Robert Smith

I had left them all three together in the water meadow, little thinking of what was in store for us before many hours.

From Lore of Proserpine by Hewlett, Maurice Henry