timothy

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It is considered superior to baled timothy--timothy brought in from the North--especially when fed to cows producing milk.

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  1. noun Any of several grasses of the genus Phleum, especially P. pratense, native to Eurasia, and P. alpinum, of North America, having a dense cylindrical inflorescence of compressed, one-flowered spikelets and widely cultivated for hay.

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  • They planted nutritious English grass such as timothy-grass, which provided more feed for livestock, and potatoes, which provided a high production rate that was an advantage for small farms. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • If clover does not grow, the timothy is not so heavy. —  Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
  • Where timothy is a leading crop, the demand for nitrogen is heavy. —  Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
  • It is considered superior to baled timothy--timothy brought in from the North--especially when fed to cows producing milk. —  Clovers and How to Grow Them
  • They were sowed to clover and timothy, and barley and corn, and gave such hay and such crops as no others in town As Jerome passed these fair fields, either golden-green with the young grass, or ploughed in even ridges for the new seeds, set with dandelions like stars, or pierced as to the brown mould with emerald spears of grain, he scowled at them, and his mouth puckered grimly and piteously. —  Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel
 

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  1. Probably after Timothy Hanson, an 18th-century American farmer.

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  1. Abbr. of timothy-grass.
 

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/ˈtɪməθi/
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