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Meadow
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A meadow is a field vegetated by grassland that is usually cut for hay and/or grazed by farm livestock (cattle, sheep or goats). However the term 'meadow' is often used to describe any piece of land where grassland vegetation predominates.
In British agriculture and ecology, the term meadow is commonly used in its original sense to mean a haymeadow – grassland mown annually for hay (Old English mædwe). "Pasture" is used in contrast for land which is primarily grazed, which may include grassland ("grass pasture"), but also includes non-grassland habitats such as heathland, moorland and wood pasture. "Grassland" is used to include both meadow and grass pasture.
In North America prior to European colonization, Algonquian, Iroquois and other Native American people regularly cleared areas of forest to create temporary meadows where deer could find nutrition and be hunted. Many places named "Deerfield" are located at sites where Native Americans once practised this form of land management.
- Coastal plain
- Field
- Flooded grasslands and savannas
- Flood-meadow
- Grassland
- Pasture
- Plain
- Plateau
- Prairie
- Rangeland
- Savanna
- Steppe
- Tundra
- Water-meadow
- Wet meadow
- Veld
- Meadow Planting
- A Year in a Meadow (Ottawa Canada)
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