mixed veld, noun phrase

/ˈmɪkst felt/
Forms:
Formerly also mixed veldt.
Origin:
English, AfrikaansShow more English mixed formed by the mingling of different types + Afrikaans veld natural uncultivated vegetation (used as pasture).
Land used as pasture and consisting of a mixture of natural vegetation types, usually either grass and scrub, or sweet and sour grass; gebroken veld. Also attributive. See also sourveld (sour sense 2), sweetveld (sweet sense 2).
1880 S.W. Silver & Co.’s Handbk to S. Afr. 155No one can be long at the Cape, if he takes an interest in farms, without hearing of Sweet Veldt and Sour Veldt and Mixed Veldt.
1906 F. Blersch Handbk of Agric. 256Where the annual rainfall is fairly evenly distributed and not too scanty, the pasturage is generally best, and may be classed as grass veld and mixed veld pasturage.
1910 A.B. Lamont Rural Reader 252Mixed veld is a mixture of grass and bushes.
1911 Farmer’s Weekly 15 Mar. 4The farm is flat and hilly and contains mixed veld suitable for all kinds of stock.
1955 J.D. Scott et al. in D. Meredith Grasses & Pastures 603Mixed Veld types are intermediate types. They occur in areas with rainfall intermediate between that of the sour and sweet veld. There is an admixture of grass types found in the other two veld types.
1989 J. du P. Bothma Game Ranch Management 600For the effective management of the veld and the rest of the game ranch, the rancher should have a sound knowledge of..the location and area of sweet veld, mixed veld and sour veld on the ranch.
1992 F.P. Van Oudtshoorn Guide to Grasses 39Mixed veld represents an intermediate form between sweetveld and sourveld. Mixed veld of which the characteristics correspond to those of sweetveld, is known as sweet mixed veld, and vice versa as sour mixed veld.
Land used as pasture and consisting of a mixture of natural vegetation types, usually either grass and scrub, or sweet and sour grass; gebroken veld. Also attributive.
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