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Rangeland vs Pasture - What's the difference?

rangeland | pasture |

As nouns the difference between rangeland and pasture

is that rangeland is unimproved land that is suitable for the grazing of livestock while pasture is land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.

As a verb pasture is

to move animals into a pasture to graze.

rangeland

English

Noun

(wikipedia rangeland)
  • (US) unimproved land that is suitable for the grazing of livestock
  • pasture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.
  • Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
  • * Bible, Psalms xxiii. 2
  • He maketh me to lie down in green pastures .
  • * Shakespeare
  • So graze as you find pasture .
  • (obsolete) Food, nourishment.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
  • Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous [...].

    Derived terms

    * pasture rose * pasture thistle

    Verb

  • To move animals into a to graze.
  • To graze.
  • To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
  • The farmer pastures''' fifty oxen; the land will '''pasture forty cows.

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