(Used of grass or vegetation) not cut down with a hand implement or machine.
1 The garden was a ragged place of unmown lawn and straggling bushes.
2 The fields were unmown , and dried brush nearly engulfed an old mailbox.
3 The brown lawn, though wet, was otherwise unwatered and unmown .
4 They were moving through unmown grass, still wet from the storm, soaking their shoes and pants.
5 These fit in perfectly in a meadow setting or orchard, or even a stretch of unmown grass.
6 His watery eyes gazed at me from beneath brows that had grown as unruly as an unmown hayfield.
7 At the other extreme, why not leave most of the lawn unmown with just a few paths meandering through?
8 Millions had been spent upon this domain of kings, and nothing but the summer's natural verdure was left to unmown stretches.
9 At the foot of the forest, on the flowery meadow, unmown this year, were feeding pretty Ukraine cattle driven from some distant place.
10 The daisy is a lawn plant that loves low turf, and only in early spring on the pasture-fields does it whiten the unmown grasses.
11 Fully half the acre, now, is thicketed with trees and brambles: a whole suite of unmown glades in which nettles and nature rule okay.
12 Dust and untidiness can take away from the most splendid decor, while something as simple as an unmown lawn gives the impression of neglect.
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