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

Otherwise he might have reckoned three and a half miles of ploughed field, soppy lane, and water meadow, as more than equivalent to five miles of good turnpike road.

From The Trial by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Early in March three male Reed-Buntings occupied a small water meadow overgrown with the common rush, and by the third week all of them were paired.

From Territory in Bird Life by Howard, H. Eliot

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