Dictionary Definition
pasture
Noun
1 a field covered with grass or herbage and
suitable for grazing by livestock [syn: pastureland, grazing
land, lea, ley]
Verb
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- a UK /ˈpæst.jə(ɹ)/ /"p
Extensive Definition
Pasture is land with herbaceous vegetation cover used
for grazing of ungulate
livestock as part of a
farm or ranch. Prior to the advent of
mechanized farming, pasture was the primary source of food for
grazing animals such as cattle and horses. It is still used
extensively, particularly in arid regions where pasture land is
unsuitable for any other agricultural production. In more humid
regions, pasture grazing is exploited extensively for free range and
organic
farming.
Pasture growth can consist of
grasses,
legumes, other forbs, shrubs or a mixture.
Soil type,
minimum annual temperature, and rainfall are important factors
in pasture management.
See also
pasture in Danish:
Overdrev
pasture in German: Weide
(Grünland)
pasture in Estonian:
Karjamaa
pasture in French: Prairie
(agriculture)
pasture in Icelandic:
Beitiland
pasture in Italian:
Pascolo
pasture in Lithuanian:
Ganykla
pasture in Macedonian:
Пасиште
pasture in Dutch:
Weiland
pasture in Japanese:
牧草
pasture in Norwegian:
Beite
pasture in Polish:
Pastwisko
pasture in Portuguese:
Pasto
pasture in Romanian:
Păşune
pasture in Quechua:
Michiy
pasture in Russian:
Пастбище
pasture in Simple English:
Pasture
pasture in Walloon:
Waide
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
appetite, arable land, barley, barnyard, barton, batten upon, bird seed,
board, bran, bread, browse, campo, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, cat
food, cattle ranch, chewing, chicken farm, chicken
feed, chop, collective
farm, consumption,
corn, cotton plantation,
croft, crop, cropping, dairy farm, deglutition, demesne, demesne farm, devouring, devourment, dieting, dine, dining, dog food, dry farm, dude
ranch, eatage, epulation, factory farm,
fallow, farm, farmery, farmhold, farmland, farmplace, farmstead, farmyard, fatten on, fatten
upon, feast on, feast upon, feasting, feed, feed on, feeding, fodder, forage, fruit farm, fur farm,
gluttony, gobbling, grain, grain farm, grange, grass, grass veld, grassland, gratify, graze, grazing, hacienda, haugh, haughland, hay, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness,
homecroft, homefarm, homestead, hunger, ingestion, kibbutz, kolkhoz, lea, licking, live on, llano, location, mains, manducation, manor farm,
mash, mastication, mead, meadow, meadow land, meal, meat, mess, messing, munching, nibbling, nutrition, oats, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, orchard, pampa, pampas, pantophagy, park, pasturage, pasture land,
pasture on, pasturing,
pecking, pen, pet food, plantation, poultry farm,
prairie, prey on,
provender, provision, ranch, rancheria, rancho, range, regale, regalement, relishing, rumination, satisfy, savanna, savoring, scratch, scratch feed, sheep
farm, silage, slops, station, steading, steppe, steppeland, stock farm,
straw, sustain, swale, swill, tasting, toft, truck farm, vega, vegetarianism, veld, wheat, wine and dine, wolfing