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牧场,草地,牧草放牧吃草
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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 \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 \Pas"ture\, v. i.
To feed on growing grass; to graze.
资料来源 : WordNet®
pasture
n 1: a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for
grazing by livestock [syn: {pastureland}, {grazing land},
{lea}, {ley}]
2: animal food for browsing or grazing [syn: {eatage}, {forage},
{pasturage}, {grass}]
v 1: let feed in a field or pasture or meadow [syn: {crop}, {graze}]
2: feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" [syn:
{crop}, {browse}, {graze}, {range}]