Definition of Pasture. Meaning of Pasture. Synonyms of Pasture

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Definition of Pasture

Pasture
Pasture Pas"ture, n. [OF. pasture, F. p[^a]ture, L. pastura, fr. pascere, pastum, to pasture, to feed. See Pastor.] 1. Food; nourishment. [Obs.] Toads and frogs his pasture poisonous. --Spenser. 2. Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing. 3. Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. --Ps. xxiii. 2. So graze as you find pasture. --Shak.
Pasture
Pasture Pas"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pastured; p. pr. & vb. n. Pasturing.] To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.
Pasture
Pasture Pas"ture, v. i. To feed on growing grass; to graze.

Meaning of Pasture from wikipedia

- Pasture (from the Latin pastus, past participle of pascere, "to feed") is land used for grazing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts...
- Pastured poultry also known as pasture-raised poultry or pasture raised eggs is a sustainable agriculture technique that calls for the raising of laying...
- Tunney's Pasture is a 49-hectare (121-acre) campus in the Canadian capital of Ottawa, Ontario, that is exclusively developed for federal government buildings...
- A pasture wedge graph or feed wedge is a farm management tool used by dairy farmers for the purposes of managing pasture. It takes the form of a bar graph...
- Upland pasture (rough grazing and/or semi-natural rough grazing) is a type of semi-natural gr****land located in uplands of rolling foothills or upon higher...
- The Pasture is a 1985 public artwork by Canadian sculptor Joe Fafard, installed in Toronto's Toronto-Dominion Centre, in Ontario. The work features seven...
- subterranean and feed on the roots and bases of gr****es and leaves in sown pastures. Nielsen, Ebbe S.; Robinson, Gaden S.; Wagner, David L. (2000). "Ghost-moths...
- subterranean and feed on the roots and bases of gr****es in native and sown pastures, including Digitaria, Pani**** and Setaria. Nielsen, Ebbe S.; Robinson,...
- The pasture day moth (Apina callisto) is a species in the moth family Noctuidae which is active during the day, as its common name implies, making it...
- The wood-pasture hypothesis (also known as the Vera hypothesis and the megaherbivore theory) is a scientific hypothesis positing that open and semi-open...