hayfield
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- noun
- /ˈheɪˌfiːld/
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prado de heno
- Gala and their two girls had departed early in May, as the greasy buds of the cottonwood were finally snapping open, the low spots in the hayfields drying and spiking green.
- mow the hayfield
- hayfields and pasture
Examples
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The farmer decided to plant alfalfa in his hayfield for the upcoming season.
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In the past, they were a typical scene in the hayfields of our area.
Blog text (15) -
Just an easy trot down the farm road and across the hayfield.
Fiction book (1993) -
But the sunlight glowing on the mowed hayfields on either side of the road and the bottomless blue of the sky made me feel homesick.
Academic text (2009) -
Driving home, we saw another young coyote, smoke gray with a black tip for a tail, trotting boldly through a fresh-cut, summer-green hayfield.
Fiction book (1996) -
We chose a typical northeastern hayfield—habitat that's wonderful for voles but also likely to get rapidly overgrown if left unmown.
Academic text (2002) -
Every summer, the children love to run through the wildflowers in the open hayfield at the edge of the farm.
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After the harvest, the cows were let loose to graze in the lush hayfield.
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Etymology
Hayfield is easy: it joins hay ('cut, dried grass for animals') and field ('open land'). So a hayfield is simply land grown and cut to make hay to feed animals.