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

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Example Sentences

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water meadow

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

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

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 H. Eliot Howard

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

From Oxford by Andrew Lang

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 Mary Cholmondeley

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