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 is a sustainable agriculture technique that calls for the raising of laying chickens, meat chickens (broilers), guinea fowl, and/or turkeys...
- winter and the high mountain pastures in summer (German Alpwirtschaft, Almwirtschaft from the term for "seasonal mountain pasture", Alp, Alm). Transhumance...
- Silvopasture is not the same as unmanaged grazing in woodlands. Open pasture systems are a result of m**** deforestation, decreasing water availability...
- Rough pasture is non-intensive grazing pasture, commonly found on poor soils, especially in hilly areas, throughout the world. "About the Macaulay Institute"...
- Rokkosan Pasture (神戸市立六甲山牧場, Kōbe Shiritsu Rokkōsan Bokujō) is a public pasture farm situated in Mount Rokkō, Kobe, ****an. The construction of a pasture farm...
- Goodpasture syndrome (GPS), also known as anti–glomerular ba****t membrane disease, is a rare autoimmune disease in which antibodies attack the ba****t...
- There are different systems of feeding cattle in animal husbandry. For pastured animals, gr**** is usually the forage that composes the majority of their...
- 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...
- 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...