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or less commonly hay field
: a field where herbaceous plants and especially grasses or legumes (such as timothy or alfalfa) are grown for hay (see hay entry 1 sense 1)
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The company has about 150 solar projects in its North American portfolio with the bulk of those developments on fallow land, hayfields and former farmland.
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Ayurella Horn-Muller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
The second generation expanded orchard acreage and planted hayfields.
—Laura Ness, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2026
The company has about 150 solar projects in its North American portfolio with the bulk of those developments on fallow land, hayfields and former farmland.
—ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
Below us were hayfields and stone barns, copses and creeks.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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Ayurella Horn-Muller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
The second generation expanded orchard acreage and planted hayfields.
—Laura Ness, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2026
The company has about 150 solar projects in its North American portfolio with the bulk of those developments on fallow land, hayfields and former farmland.
—ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
Below us were hayfields and stone barns, copses and creeks.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hayfield
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“Hayfield.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hayfield. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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