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PASTURAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
Synonyms:
eatage; forage; grass; pasturage; pasture
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("pasturage" is a kind of...):
fodder (coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop)
Derivation:
pasture (feed as in a meadow or pasture)
pasture (let feed in a field or pasture or meadow)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Succulent herbaceous vegetation of pasture land
Synonyms:
herbage; pasturage
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pasturage" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)