Pastureland

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Land used for pasture, on which livestock can graze. countable, uncountable

    ""[The steppe's] eastern borderlands had marched from the mid-eleventh century with the pasturelands of a people known to the Latins and Byzantines as the Cumans""

  2. 2
    a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock wordnet

Synonyms

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grazing landlealeypasturagepasturepasture

Example

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"But rainfall increased in 2010. That, along with improved distribution of agricultural inputs, such as seed, fertilizer and pesticide, led to a record harvest. There was also a rebound in pastureland countrywide."

Etymology

From pasture + land.

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