grass fields & meadow

English translation: cultivated pasture and non-cultivated

11:30 Oct 23, 2009

English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Botany

English term or phrase: grass fields & meadow

5,000 perennial flowers, 33,000 bulbous plants in boom, ***6000 m2 grass fields and 900 m2 meadow***…

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Can it be 900 m2 of well-kept-lawn and 6000 m2 of meadow….
or would it be simply over-interpretation?

Many more thanks and sorry for the frequent questions. Text i’m working on is giving me a lot of trouble…

foghorn

Selected answer:cultivated pasture and non-cultivated

Explanation:
I think this is the difference.

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Note added at 23 mins (2009-10-23 11:54:02 GMT)
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It COULD include lawns, but the a field is not usually manicured as a lawn is likely to be.
These might help:

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=no&rlz=1T4ADFA_enNO339N...

http://images.google.co.uk/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4...

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William [Bill] Gray
Norway
Local time: 18:31

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cultivated pasture and non-cultivated

William [Bill] Gray

see explanation

Stephanie Ezrol

lawn and pasture

Rolf Keiser

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meadaws

Maria Fokin

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cultivated pasture and non-cultivated

William [Bill] Gray
Norway
Local time: 18:31
Native speaker of:

English

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Thank you, all explanations were helpful.

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Asker: so many thanks Bill!

2 hrs confidence:

lawn and pasture

Explanation:
since there is mention of flowers and plants I would imagine that on the one side we are talking of a lawn which is mowed in contrast to the pasture which is naturally kept in check through grazing by animals

Rolf Keiser
Switzerland
Local time: 18:31
Native speaker of:

English,

German

1 day 30 mins confidence:

see explanation

Explanation:
Grass fields in a park are wild tall grasses, through which one might mow a walking trail. Meadows usually implies a wildflower area.

Grass fields are not mowed areas in a park, a mowed area is a lawn.

Example sentence(s):

This old dirt road passes through many habitats, including; mature deciduous forest, pine and larch plantation, grass fields, and overgrown meadow. This trail ends at the southern shore of Tuscarora Lake.
I found my home in Dorset, and have used it as a sort of experimental butterfly station. I’ve created special butterfly habitats in it, like south-facing chalk and limestone crescents, coppiced woodland, wet areas, and rich wildflower meadows

Reference: http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateParks/parks/tuscarora.aspx
Reference: http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/?page=editorial&id=538&catID...

Stephanie Ezrol
United States
Local time: 12:31
Native speaker of: English

Reference comments

3 hrs peer agreement (net): +1

Reference: meadaws

Reference information:
The term 'meadow' is strictly speaking used to describe grass fields which are grown for hay.

Meadows are permanent pastures. Permanent is taken to mean that they have not been ploughed within at least seven years. Indeed, they may never have been ploughed in living memory.

They have a low fertilizer input from the farmer who manages them. They are unimproved grasslands.

http://www.countrysideinfo.co.uk/meadows/intro.htm

seems like the main differences between grasslands and meadows are: size, use (grazing versus hay), and maintenance (meadows being almost wild)

Maria Fokin
Italy
Native speaker of:

English,

Russian

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