Meadow vs. Grass — What's the Difference?

A meadow is an open habitat, or field, vegetated by grasses, herbs, and other non-woody plants. Trees or shrubs may sparsely populate meadows, as long as these areas maintain an open character.

A member of the grass family.

A piece of grassland, especially one used for hay

The members of the grass family considered as a group.

A tract of grassland, either in its natural state or used as pasture or for growing hay.

Any of various plants having slender leaves similar to those of a grass.

A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.

Ground, as on a lawn, that is covered with grass or similar plants.

Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.

Grazing land; pasture.

A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.

(Slang) Marijuana.

Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark Bay.

(Electronics) Small variations in amplitude of an oscilloscope display caused by electrical noise.

Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow.

Chiefly British Slang An informer.

A field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay

To cover with grass.

To grow grass on.

To feed (livestock) with grass.

To become covered with grass.

To graze.

Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

(countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.

(uncountable) A lawn.

Marijuana.

An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.

Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.

Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.

The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.

That which is transitory.

Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".

(mining) The surface of a mine.

(transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).

To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

(transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.

(transitive) To feed with grass.

(transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.

(transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.

Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.

An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.

The season of fresh grass; spring.

Metaphorically used for what is transitory.

Marijuana.

To cover with grass or with turf.

To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.

To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish.

To produce grass.

Narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay

German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927)

Animal food for browsing or grazing

Street names for marijuana

Shoot down, of birds

Cover with grass;

Spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach

Cover with grass

Feed with grass

Give away information about somebody;