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Meadow vs Burrow - What's the difference?

meadow | burrow |

As nouns the difference between meadow and burrow

is that meadow is a field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay; an area of low-lying vegetation, especially near a river while burrow is a tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature.

As a proper noun Meadow

is a town in Texas.

As a verb burrow is

to dig a tunnel or hole.

meadow

English

(wikipedia meadow)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay; an area of low-lying vegetation, especially near a river.
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  • Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
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  • , volume=101, issue=1, page=59, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The Fraught History of a Watery World , passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}

    Derived terms

    * catch-meadow * meadow barley * meadow beauty * meadow bright * meadow buttercup * meadow clary * meadow clover * meadow cranesbill * meadow cress * meadow dermatitis * meadow fern * meadow fescue * meadow foxtail * meadow frog * meadow golden * meadow grass * meadow horsetail * meadow jumping mouse * meadow leek * meadow lily * meadow mouse * meadow muffin * meadow mushroom * meadow nematode * meadow ore * meadow oxeye * meadow pea * meadow pink * meadow pipit * meadow rue * meadow saffron * meadow salsify * meadow saxifrage * meadow spikemoss * meadow spittlebug * meadow starling * meadow thistle * meadow violet * meadow vole * meadowage * meadowed * meadower * meadowing * meadowish * meadowland * meadowlark * meadowless * meadowsweet * meadow-wink * meadowy * queen of the meadow * water meadow

    burrow

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
  • But very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk to him, and made nice tunnels' for him under the bedclothes that he said were like the ' burrows the real rabbits lived in.
  • (mining) A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.
  • A mound.
  • An incorporated town.
  • (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dig a tunnel or hole.