grazing

noun

graz·​ing ˈgrā-ziŋ How to pronounce grazing (audio)
: herbage or land for grazing

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Now, instead of grazing, the horses were standing still, heads down – a large cloud of flies surrounding them. Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 16 May 2025 But their way of life continues to have advantages, including the economic benefit of raising animals on pastures with little need for supplemental feed and the ecological value of giving land time to recover between periods of grazing. Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 10 May 2025 The lands span a range of ecosystems from alpine mountains to red-rock deserts, and support recreation, grazing, energy development and cultural site preservation. Dan Cody, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025 Unchecked sea urchin grazing can strip the forest into a barren, where biodiversity plummets. Avery Schuyler Nunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for grazing

Word History

First Known Use

1517, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of grazing was in 1517

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“Grazing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grazing. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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