water meadow

a meadow kept fertile by flooding.

Origin of water meadow

First recorded in 1725–35

Here a man in a brown apron and brilliant crimson sleeves was raking up the aftermath off a water-meadow.

With the World's Great Travellers, Volume IV |Various
One day the eldest was walking in a water-meadow, when she saw a pink growing in the stream.

The Grey Fairy Book |Various
It was like a water-meadow at home, such a place as I had often in boyhood searched for moss-cheepers' and corncrakes' eggs.

Prester John |John Buchan
Well, I had a hundred poods for sale; the women mowed it on the water-meadow.

The Witch and Other Stories |Anton Chekhov

The Baron listened, and then said he must go and see that a new hatch was put in the brook to irrigate the water-meadow.

After London |Richard Jefferies

water meadow

a meadow that remains fertile by being periodically flooded by a stream