(v. t.) To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
(v. t.) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
(v. t.) To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
(v. t.) To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.
(v. i.) To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows.
(v. i.) To yield grass for grazing.
(v. i.) To touch something lightly in passing.
(n.) The act of grazing; the cropping of grass.
(n.) A light touch; a slight scratch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Voluntary intake and nutritive value of diets selected by goats grazing a shrubland at Marin county, N.L., Mexico were determined.
(2) the does had been grazing on lucerne from the time of mating and received a free-choice lick, which included iodine.
(3) Examination of cattle faeces demonstrated that six-month-old calves excreted moderate numbers of N battus eggs in June and July, thus contaminating next season's sheep grazing.
(4) Before 1948, the Bedouin tribes lived and grazed their animals on much of the Negev, claiming ancestral rights to the land.
(5) The relative resistance to different cattle ticks of Gudali and Wakwa cattle with different levels of Brahman breeding, grazed on natural pastures in the subhumid tropics of Wakwa, Cameroon, was assessed using pasture tick infestations.
(6) Three age groups were used: stall fed yearlings, grazing heifers and lactating cows.
(7) Serum cholesterol concentrations were lower in steers grazing on G1-307 than in steers grazing on G1-306 or cultivars.
(8) Diagnostic methods which reveal only the presence or absence of Ostertagia in grazing animals are of little importance since all will acquire some degree of infection when grazed in the temperate regions of the world.
(9) High titres of antibodies to rinderpest virus were demonstrated in sera collected from sheep and goats that were grazing together with the affected cattle herds; there was, however, no evidence of clinical disease in these small ruminants and wildlife species in the affected area.
(10) However, both groups of bulls exhibited similar diurnal grazing patterns with two major daily grazing periods; the first (0400 to 1300) peaked early in the morning (0600) and the second (1700 to 2200) occurred in late afternoon and evening.
(11) In grass tetany, the animals generally are grazing cool-season forages in which Mg concentration or bioavailability of plant Mg is low.
(12) Currently, the lucrative trade in logging, cattle grazing and palm oil, means tropical forests are worth substantially more dead than alive to developing countries.
(13) Eighty-five American wigeon (Anas americana) died after grazing on one treated fairway on the day of application following irrigation.
(14) It appeared that H. contortus could not have more than two generations in ewes or lambs in a single grazing season.
(15) The changes in nematode cholinesterase (ChE) activities were examined in relation to the development of resistance in (1) a flock of young grazing sheep, (2) grazing and penned sheep treated with dexamethasone and (3) penned sheep receiving a single mixed infection.
(16) Previously infected weaners underwent spontaneous cure within 6 weeks to 6 months of starting to graze safe pastures, Teladorsagia being reduced by 77 to 98%, Nematodirus by 9 to 94% and Trichostrongylus by 34 to 40%.
(17) The foals and yearlings were allowed to graze on open pasture throughout the experiment to provide a natural source for bot and helminth infections.
(18) One of the major differences between the two systems is that PMC cows have access to grazing along the rivers.
(19) Three groups of five, three-and-a-half to four-month-old lambs were put to graze on three plots contaminated by Trichostrongylus colubriformis.
(20) Grazing sheep in some situations develop visible cysts earlier, around one year of age, hence it is considered that the infections of experimental sheep in SPF conditions may not reflect all the circumstances leading to natural infection.
Grazer
Definition:
(n.) One that grazes; a creature which feeds on growing grass or herbage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ciliates were found in the colon of three of these free-living hindgut-fermenting grazers that were shot in widely spaced districts in southern Africa.
(2) Grazer's first task will now be to secure the services of a new host, though there is no huge rush – Oscars MCs have, in the past, been announced as late as January for a ceremony that usually takes place in late February or early March.
(3) I do love reading books, watching films, listening to music, but it tends to all come back to what I do.” (A big movie fan, he counts Alex Garland, who directed the recent AI film Ex Machina , as a friend; and mentions that he’s just had a meeting with the US film producer Brian Grazer, a “really cool guy”, in which they talked about, you guessed it, AI.)
(4) In the same 12-year period, we also performed abdominoplasty in 108 patients, using the Pitanguy and the Grazer procedures.
(5) Ironically, the man who stepped into Ratner's shoes was one of his Tower Heist producers, Brian Grazer; as yet, there's no word on Murphy's replacement, but traction is gaining for the Muppets , who have a new movie in production.
(6) In summer, they decline after exhausting nutrients or being eaten by ocean grazers.
(7) These ‘grazers’ are leading a major shift in shopping habits, which marks a return to the way people used to shop before the advent of larger supermarkets.” Murrells is fighting to turn around the fortunes of the Co-op’s grocery stores – a key plank in the reinvention of the troubled Co-operative Group , which includes food, insurance and funeral care businesses.
(8) "It's very gratifying to be part of a show that honours excellence in the medium to which I have devoted so much of my career," said Grazer, who will work with Oscars veteran Don Mischer.
(9) "Brian Grazer is a renowned film-maker who over the past 25 years has produced a diverse and extraordinary body of work," Academy president Tom Sherak said.
(10) A further distinction has been made between grazing animals, e.g., cattle, sheep, horses, and non-grazers such as swine and poultry.
(11) Grazer, who won a best film statue in 2002 as a producer of A Beautiful Mind, worked with both Ratner and Murphy on the film Tower Heist, and appears to have been recruited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences because of his working relationship with the latter.
(12) The Oscar-winning producer Brian Grazer has stepped in to host the 2012 Academy Awards following the departure of Brett Ratner and host Eddie Murphy in a damaging 24-hour period for the world's most famous film ceremony.
(13) Portland's food carts have fed millions, launched careers and contributed to urban regeneration: a no-go square once known as "crack park" is now full of happy lunchtime grazers.
(14) The anatomy of the lechwe stomach is similar to the stomachs of other water dependent grazers such as Bohor Reedbuck, Waterbuck, Uganda Kob and Puku.