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grazeland

grazeland noun: land used for grazing animals; pasture.

Noun

grazeland (countable and uncountable, plural grazelands)

  1. Land used for grazing animals; pasture.
    • Ghana is an agricultural country consisting mainly of the coastal plains with grazeland vegetation, a forest belt covering a large part of the South and Ashanti, and the Savannah in the North.1960, Susan B.G. Ofori-Atta, “Nutritional Deficiencies and Maternal and Child Health in Africa”, in Journal of the National Medical Association, volume 52, number 1
    • For instance, one could think of parcelling out the entire grazeland into small, appropriately scattered pastures1996, Jean-Marie Baland, Jean-Philippe Platteau, Halting Degradation of Natural Resources: Is There a Role for Rural Communities?, →OCLC

Examples of grazeland in a sentence

  • Land-based production systems — crop, orchard, plantation, grazeland, and freshwater aquaculture — claim almost one-third of the Earth's terrestrial surface2005, Don Melnick, Jeffrey Sachs, UN Millennium Project. Task Force on Environmental Sustainability, UN Millennium Project: Environment and...
  • Rangelands consist of grazelands, shrublands and forest ranges.2005, A. Georgoudis, A. Rosati, C. Mosconi, Animal Production and Natural Resources Utilisation in the Mediterranean Mountain Areas...

Forms of grazeland

pluralgrazelands

Origin of grazeland

From graze + land.

Questions about grazeland

What does grazeland mean?
Grazeland means land used for grazing animals; pasture.
How do you use grazeland in a sentence?
Land-based production systems — crop, orchard, plantation, grazeland, and freshwater aquaculture — claim almost one-third of the Earth's terrestrial surface
What part of speech is grazeland?
Grazeland is a noun.
What is the plural of grazeland?
The plural of grazeland is grazelands.

Words near grazeland in the dictionary

  1. graze
  2. grazeable
  3. Grazebrook
  4. Grazebrooks
  5. grazed
  6. grazeland
  7. grazelands
  8. grazer
  9. grazers
  10. grazes
  11. grazest

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