Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SWARD
SWARD
Definitions of SWARD
- (uncountable) Earth which grass has grown into the upper layer of; greensward, sod, turf; (countable) a portion of such earth.
- (countable) An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow.
- (countable, obsolete) The upper layer of the ground, especially when vegetation is growing on it.
- (countable, obsolete, except, Britain, dialectal) The rind of bacon or pork; also, the outer covering or skin of something.
- (transitive) To cover (ground, etc.) with sward.
- (intransitive) Of ground, etc.: to be covered with sward; to develop a covering of sward.
- (Philippines) A homosexual man.
- A surname.
Number of letters
5
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using SWARD in a Sentence
- At once a Canadian and American poet, one with a foot in both worlds, Sward also inhabits an enormous in-between.
- The grass is kept short by cattle and sheep, which also add trample and add texture to the sward, forming tussocks that favour a number of bird species.
- The earliest mention of the Curragh in legal documents was 1299, when an act was passed, to prevent swine from feeding on the Curragh plains to the detriment of the sward.
- The sward and moss disappearing from the brush-wood on the sides of the mountains, the waters falling in rain are no longer impeded in their course: and instead of slowly augmenting the level of the rivers by progressive filtrations, they furrow during heavy showers the sides of the hills, bear down the loose soil, and form those sudden inundations that devastate the country.
- Magnesian limestone grassland supports an assemblage of calcicolous plants adapted to growing in thin soils with a short sward.
- Where the sward is allowed to flower it is very colourful, with clovers and vetches, knapweed, fleabane, oxeye daisy, bird's foot trefoil, meadowsweet, agrimony, burnet saxifrage and wild carrot.
- Alarcón, David Beckman, Janine Canan, Ed Coletti, Iris Jamahl-Dunkle, Katherine Hastings, Jodi Hottel, Paula Koneazny, Gail Larrick, Hannah Maggiora, Phyllis Meshulam, Lee Slonimsky and Robert Sward.
- Over 200 species occur in the sward, including Salad Burnet (Sanguisorba minor), Dropwort (Filipendula vulgaris), Fairy Flax (Linum catharticum), Kidney Vetch (Anthyllis vulneraria) and Dwarf Thistle (Cirsium acaule).
- Wart-biters need a mosaic of vegetation, including bare ground/short turf, grass tussocks, and a sward rich in flowering forbs.
- Salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor) forms a major component of the sward with rough marsh-mallow (Althaea hirsuta) and nit-grass (Gastridium ventricosum), two.
- Topi are not as capable as other grazers at feeding from short sward, and during the rainy season avoid both long mature grass and very short pasture, whereas in the dry season they move to any area with the most grass.
- It is evidently much relished by stock, and is worthy of introduction in sand-hill districts near the sea, or saline soil inland; it would clothe the wet fiats with a valuable sward.
- Fine leaved grass species and taller sward heights occur more commonly in heathlands where less human alteration of the land occurs compared to agricultural sites.
- The leaves are bunched in tight tufts with plants forming a very tussocky, low sward 5 to 20 cm tall before flowering, to 30 cm high.
- The most diverse area of the Wilderness SSSI is where water flushes out of the soil and the sward is dominated by sedges and rushes among which are cottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium) and other wetland grasses and herbs.
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