Definitions for grazing
ˈgreɪ zɪŋgraz·ing

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

1. graze, grazingnoun

   the act of grazing

2. grazing, shaving, skimmingnoun

   the act of brushing against while passing

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Grazing

   In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to roam around and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other forages into meat, milk, wool and other animal products, often on land unsuitable for arable farming. Farmers may employ many different strategies of grazing for optimum production: grazing may be continuous, seasonal, or rotational within a grazing period. Longer rotations are found in ley farming, alternating arable and fodder crops; in rest rotation, deferred rotation, and mob grazing, giving grasses a longer time to recover or leaving land fallow. Patch-burn sets up a rotation of fresh grass after burning with two years of rest. Conservation grazing proposes to use grazing animals to improve the biodiversity of a site, but studies show that the greatest benefit to biodiversity comes from removing grazing animals from the landscape.Grazing has existed since the beginning of agriculture; sheep and goats were domesticated by nomads before the first permanent settlements were constructed around 7000 BC, enabling cattle and pigs to be kept. Livestock grazing contributes to many negative effects on the environment, including deforestation, extinction of native wildlife, pollution of streams and rivers, overgrazing, soil degradation, ecological disturbance, desertification, and ecosystem stability.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Grazing

   of Graze

2. Grazingnoun

   the act of one who, or that which, grazes

3. Grazingnoun

   a pasture; growing grass

WikidataRate this definition:3.7 / 3 votes

1. Grazing

   Grazing generally describes a type of feeding, in which a herbivore feeds on plants, and also on other multicellular autotrophs. Grazing differs from true predation because the organism being eaten from is not generally killed, and it differs from parasitism as the two organisms do not live together, nor is the grazer necessarily so limited in what it can eat. Many small selective herbivores follow larger grazers, who skim off the highest, tough growth of plants, exposing tender shoots. For terrestrial animals, grazing is normally distinguished from browsing in that grazing is eating grass or forbs, and browsing is eating woody twigs and leaves from trees and shrubs. Grazing is important in agriculture, in which domestic livestock are used to convert grass and other forage into meat, milk and other products. The word graze derives from the Old English grasian, "graze", itself related to OE graes, "grass". Water animals that feed for example on algae found on stones are called grazers-scrapers. Grazers-scrapers feed also on microorganism and dead organic matter on various substrates.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of grazing in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of grazing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of grazing in a Sentence

1. Stuart Roberts:

   Grazing cattle is the most sustainable way to use land for food production which is unsuitable for growing any other crop, by using our grasslands in this way we can sequester carbon at the same time as turning inedible grass into a highly nutritious protein which our growing population can enjoy.

2. Ken Cole:

   The ranchers generate public sympathy for their custom and culture, all the while despoiling the land, wildlife, and water and disregarding the laws that govern the heavily subsidized grazing permits they feel so entitled to.

3. Manuel Fernández-Götz:

   In this way they help us to build a picture of how the mass of the population lived out their lives -- how close their nearest neighbours were and how they may have used the landscape for farming and grazing animals.

4. Fusek Peters:

   This particular male has, for some strange reason, adopted these cows as his herd, and stays with them almost every day - grazing, lying down and acting rather like a cow himself, this type of deer behavior has never been observed or captured before, and really is a Shropshire wonder.

5. White House:

   The Hammonds are multi-generation cattle ranchers in Oregon imprisoned in connection with a fire that leaked onto a small portion of neighboring public grazing land, the evidence at trial regarding the Hammonds ’ responsibility for the fire was conflicting, and the jury acquitted them on most of the charges.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=grazing
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grazing
3. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grazing
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=grazing