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Definition of Grass-covered

1. Adjective. Covered with grass. "Wide grass-covered plains as far as the eye could see"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grass-covered

Literary usage of Grass-covered

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry by Frank Humphreys Storer (1897)
"... that the soil-water in the bare land continued to sink to a greater depth than it did in the grass-covered earth. When the snow melted in spring, ..."

2. United States Coast Pilot, Philippine Islands by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (1919)
"... is a small, rugged, grass-covered island 139 feet high. A number of detached rocks, varying in height from 6 to 68 feet, lie north and east of this ..."

3. The Indian Forester (1890)
"is of no great importance, because the effects of atmospheric precipitations of moisture on grass-covered soils have been fully worked out in 1869-70. ..."

4. British Farmer's Magazine (1853)
"0.55 On long grass covered with glass 6.01 Ditto under short grass 1.69 Ditto, glass 1 inch thick 3.35 Ditto, covered with hare-skin 0.75 Ditto, ..."

5. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, David Starr Jordan, United States Dept. of the Treasury. Special Agents Division, Leonhard Hess Stejneger, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, (1898)
"... an inner grass covered belt, followed by a narrow, pebbly belt more or less whitened by broken shells and fringed by an outer rocky reef, ..."

6. Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry by Frank Humphreys Storer (1897)
"... that the soil-water in the bare land continued to sink to a greater depth than it did in the grass-covered earth. When the snow melted in spring, ..."

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