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The meaning of HAYFIELD is a field where herbaceous plants and especially grasses or legumes (such as timothy or orchard grass or alfalfa) are grown for hay.
The earliest known use of the noun hayfield is in the late 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for hayfield is from 1785, in the writing of William Cowper, poet and letter-writer. hayfield is formed within English, by compounding.
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hayfield - a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay meadow grassland - land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life
a field where grass, alfalfa, etc., are grown for making into hay. The decline of their natural habitat means curlew often breed in farmers' hayfields where their nests can be destroyed if the grass is mown in May or June, before chicks have had time to fledge.
The Britannica Dictionary. hayfield. 1 ENTRIES FOUND: hayfield (noun) hayfield / ˈ heɪˌfiːld/ noun. plural hayfields. hayfield / ˈ heɪˌfiːld/ noun. plural hayfields. Britannica Dictionary definition of HAYFIELD [count]: a field where grass is grown for hay. ASK THE EDITOR
