water meadow

noun

a meadow kept fertile by flooding.

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Origin of water meadow

First recorded in 1725–35

Words nearby water meadow

water line, water locust, water loss, water louse, water main, water meadow, water measurer, water meter, water milfoil, water mill, water mint

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Example sentences from the Web for water meadow

Here a man in a brown apron and brilliant crimson sleeves was raking up the aftermath off a water-meadow.
With the World's Great Travellers, Volume IV|Various
One day the eldest was walking in a water-meadow, when she saw a pink growing in the stream.
The Grey Fairy Book|Various
It was like a water-meadow at home, such a place as I had often in boyhood searched for moss-cheepers' and corncrakes' eggs.
Prester John|John Buchan
Well, I had a hundred poods for sale; the women mowed it on the water-meadow.
The Witch and Other Stories|Anton Chekhov

The Baron listened, and then said he must go and see that a new hatch was put in the brook to irrigate the water-meadow.
After London|Richard Jefferies

British Dictionary definitions for water meadow

water meadow

noun

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

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