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grass-fed

grass-fed adjective: of cattle or other livestock, fed on pasture.

Adjective

grass-fed (not comparable)

  1. Of cattle or other livestock, fed on pasture.
  2. Of meat, milk, or other livestock products, derived from livestock fed on pasture.
    • The quality of the beef usually met with in the Straits Settlements is so bad and so destitute of flavour, that possibly the buyers had forgotten what an honest sirloin of beef looked like, and the rich edging of fat from grass-fed beef may have struck them as something extraordinary.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 265

Questions about grass-fed

What does grass-fed mean?
Grass-fed means of cattle or other livestock, fed on pasture.
What part of speech is grass-fed?
Grass-fed is an adjective.

Words near grass-fed in the dictionary

  1. grass-combers
  2. grass-dart
  3. grass-darts
  4. grass-eater
  5. grass-eaters
  6. grass-fed
  7. grass-green
  8. grass-greens
  9. grass-grown
  10. grass-pea
  11. grass-peas

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