PASTURAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pasturage mean? 

• PASTURAGE (noun)
  The noun PASTURAGE has 2 senses:

1. succulent herbaceous vegetation of pasture land

2. bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle

  Familiarity information: PASTURAGE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASTURAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Succulent herbaceous vegetation of pasture land

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

herbage; pasturage

Hypernyms ("pasturage" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

eatage; forage; grass; pasturage; pasture

Hypernyms ("pasturage" is a kind of...):

fodder (coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop)

Derivation:

pasture (feed as in a meadow or pasture)

pasture (let feed in a field or pasture or meadow)

 Context examples 

They had in fact nothing to wish for, but the marriage of Colonel Brandon and Marianne, and rather better pasturage for their cows.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)