In plural (Scottish) Comparatively level or gently undulating sandy ground near the sea-shore, covered with turf, coarse grass, etc.

Qualified by green, grassy, grass, of grass, etc.: The surface of soil covered with grass or other herbage; turf, greensward, n.

A flat or low-lying coastal strip of arable land or grassland usually overlying shell sand; land of this kind.

A thin layer of turf. Obsolete.

In South Africa, an area of land providing good nutritious grazing; also, the vegetation of an area of this kind.

? a hard or compact kind of turf.

grassland covered with coarse grass lacking nutritive value.

(under-, prefix1 affix 2b(c).)

land covered with stiff grass, reeds, etc.

(under-, prefix1 affix 2b(c).)

a line formed from turf; spec. in an archæological excavation, a layer of soil representing former grassland.