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

How happy these people must be who live down here, where there is something more than water, meadow and forest.

From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold

When she gathered her first posy of lady's-smock in the long water meadow near the mill, the little milk-white flowers said, "Why have you been away from us so long?"

From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary

Plans of the Water-meadow showing the Territories occupied by Lapwings in 1916 There is a water meadow with which I am familiar, where large numbers resort annually for the purpose of procreation.

From Territory in Bird Life by Howard, H. Eliot