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grazing

grazing

26 2.4
Animals eating grass in a field or pasture
  • noun
  • /ˈɡreɪzɪŋ/
translation icon : pastoreo
  • One person studied the impacts of cattle grazing on public lands in eastern Washington.
  • livestock grazing
  • cattle grazing
  • grazing animals

But the the biggest problem with grazing is the amount of land that that it's using.

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Examples

  • Good grazing for the flocks, though we lack rain this year.

  • After the rain, the fields are full of fresh grass, perfect for grazing livestock.

  • But the the biggest problem with grazing is the amount of land that that it's using.

  • ...hoping to get access to that piece of magic grazing land.

  • Oh, Peter, I help drive the horses to winter grazing every year.

  • Good grazing land and a home place near running water and shade and green trees all around.

  • People are destroying our forests to make land for grazing cattle.

  • Lands set aside as a consequence of the CAP are important grazing areas (Figure 6).

    Academic text (2011)
  • And already the land around them was shorn and bare from the grazing of cattle and buffalo.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • To each side of the road stretched wide grazing lands and close-planted farmlands.

    Fiction book (1990)

Synonyms

feeding
vsgrazing
149 1.0

Eating or giving food to people, animals, and plants

refers only to animals eating grass in a field or pasture
graze
vsgrazing
1 2.0

The act of animals eating grass in a field

includes other low plants and pasture areas as well
herbivory
vsgrazing
  • Specialized
1 7.0

Eating plants by animals, often causing damage to the plants

is limited to eating grass and low vegetation in fields

Compounds

3 2.5

Land with grass where animals like cows or sheep eat

grazing fire
  • Specialized
9.3

Bullets fired low so their path stays close to the ground

How Much

overgrazing
  • Specialized
1 4.4
grazing
26 2.4

Surface Forms

grazing singular
grazings plural

Morphology

grazing = graze (transparent) = graze + ing

Standard gerund/nominalization of the verb 'graze' in its sense 'to feed on grass', so the noun's meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Grazing comes from grass and graze, and it literally suggests 'to eat grass', like sheep or cows feeding in a field. That's why 'grazing' means the act of animals eating grass or other low plants on a pasture.