pasture

pâturage, prairie

Terrain couvert d’herbe où les animaux d’élevage se nourrissent.

En anglais simple : Land covered with grass where farm animals feed.

• The cows are in the pasture.
• The farmer fenced off a new pasture.
• Heavy rain has made the pastures green again.

Synonymes : grazing land, grassland

Expressions courantes : green pasture, pasture land, in the pasture, open pasture

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Nourrir des animaux en les mettant sur un terrain où ils peuvent manger l’herbe qui y pousse.

En anglais simple : To feed animals by putting them on land where they can eat growing grass.

• They pasture sheep here.
• We pastured the cattle near the river last summer.
• Can you pasture horses on this land?

Comment l'utiliser : pasture animals on land (They pasture their horses on the hillside.)

Synonymes : graze

Expressions courantes : pasture cattle, pasture sheep, pasture on something