noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
water meadow
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
alpine
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The area also has a range of fragile eco-systems and rare plants including button grass, alpine meadow and snow gum.
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At one extreme are pure, natural ecosystems like an alpine meadow or a mangrove swamp.
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Of all the sporting activities available during the afternoon, one pleasure is walking through alpine meadows .
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Swimming: Lauterbrunnen has a lovely outdoor swimming pool set in alpine meadows .
green
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Sunshine, warm smiles and a skyline of gently rounded peaks dressed in verdant green meadows and lush forests.
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I have plucked flowers from twenty-two pastures and twenty-two mountains and from plateaux and green lowland meadows .
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To them it was what it seemed to be, a pleasant green meadow .
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Then the car hurtled on to the deceptive green meadow - and into it!
open
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The castle, is located across an open meadow to the rear.
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The trees thinned and they fled across an open meadow .
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Riven even heard skylarks sporting over the open meadows .
■ NOUN
hay
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Upland valleys present additional problems because of their often numerous isolated field barns - sometimes one for each hay meadow .
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On the Baca Ranch itself, Boyce proposes to stop irrigating artificial hay meadows .
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There was a barn at the far end of the hay meadow , away from the house and the other barns.
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For these plants to survive, even in these beneficial conditions, it is necessary to have traditionally managed hay meadows .
water
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It is rumoured that an oil rig is to be set up on the local water meadows .
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From the hides, shimmering water meadows , fingered spits islands, orange-tinged osiers and countless bobbing birds lay exposed to view.
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This faces out on to a flooded water meadow full of grazing buffaloes.
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I think Concorde's a wonderful design but I wouldn't want it in this water meadow .
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Time allowed 00:25 Read in studio Environmental campaigners have won their battle to stop a bypass being built across ancient water meadows .
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Another area needing careful management is the water meadow , where control of water flow is vital.
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This point was appreciated by members of the audience thinking of Alton's own water meadow problem.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Again the enemy pushes through the meadow and up the hill, and the battle is renewed.
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In the countryside, large working farms interrupted a landscape of mountains, meadow , marshland, and abandoned quarries.
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Perhaps it still is, for it still winds peacefully between the elm-shaded meadows of the Exe valley past congenial inns.
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She lifted it over the fence and set off across the little meadow , gathering speed and thoroughly enjoying it.
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The Rockets seem happier hacking their way through the brambles than skipping across a grassy meadow .
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They circled in the wind, their cries filling the morning air as we crossed the bottom meadows into the hamlet.
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They look a bit like our familiar meadow pipit apart from the chestnut colour of the throat.
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We were friends, on Sunday afternoons we went running in the lower meadows.