"grazing" meaning in All languages combined

See grazing on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈɡɹeɪ.zɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-grazing.wav [US] Forms: grazings [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪzɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} grazing (countable and uncountable, plural grazings)
  1. Grazeland. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-grazing-en-noun-b5k6tp1E Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 19 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 79 9 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 75 16 10
  2. (countable, uncountable) The action of animals eating, mainly of grass in a field or on other grassland. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-grazing-en-noun-Ibf9-oS3
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: fly grazing, goat grazing problem, grazing fire, macrograzing, semi-zero grazing, sungrazing

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈɡɹeɪ.zɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-grazing.wav [US]
Rhymes: -eɪzɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} grazing
  1. present participle and gerund of graze Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: graze Derived forms: Earth-grazing, grazingly, grazing occultation, nongrazing
    Sense id: en-grazing-en-verb-zSsM8qHx

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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