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grass land, grassland orig. U.S.
[grass n.1]
Land producing grass; pasture or grazing land. Also attrib.
1682in C. W. Manwaring Digest Early Connecticut Probate Rec. III. 114 In any corn feild or grass land. 1697Connecticut Col. Rec. IV. 212 About one acre of grasse land in the said meddowe. 1765Mus. Rust. III. 325 Twenty Acres of Grass-Land. 1807J. Barlow Columb. v. 300 The conscious flocks..spread thro the grassland. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed 4) I. 5 Grass-land, when of good quality, is of the greatest value. 1903W. R. Fisher tr. Schimper's Plant-Geogr. ii. i. 174 A good grassland climate is..composed of the following elements. 1920Nature 27 May 408/2 It is too often the case that grassland is left to take care of itself, and that no steps are taken for its improvement. 1954M. Beresford Lost Villages v. 148 From 1445 to 1491 he had been near Warwick at the heart of the grasslands. 1959A. McLintock Descr. Atlas N.Z. 41 During the 1920s farmers adopted the idea of intensive grassland farming. 1971Sci. Amer. July 86/1 The Serengeti National Park is an area of 5,600 square miles of grassland and open woodland. |