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Definition of "pasturage" [pas•tur•age]

  • The grass or other vegetation eaten by grazing animals. (noun)
  • Land covered with grass or vegetation suitable for grazing animals. (noun)
  • The business of grazing cattle. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "pasturage" in a sentence
  • "The savanna is burned frequently to maintain pasturage for grazing and to keep the land open for hunting."
  • "The Prince and Princess and their suite fared on without stopping through the first day and the second and the third and the fourth, nor did they cease faring for a whole month till they came to a spacious champaign, abounding in pasturage, where they pitched their tents; and they ate and drank and rested, and the Princess"
  • "I marched from the mountainous bank of the Bashee through a most beautiful and fertile country, strongly undulating and rich in pasturage, over which was visible the track of vast numbers of cattle."