In (Genesis 41:2,18) meadow appears to be an Egyptian term meaning some kind of flag or waterplant, as its use in (Job 8:11) (Authorized Version "flag") seems to show.
• In (Judges 20:33) the sense of the Hebrew word translated meadow is doubly uncertain. The most plausible interpretation is that of the Peshito-Syriac, which by a slight difference in the vowel-points makes the word mearah, "the cave."
In New England this word means exclusively grass land, which is moist or subject to being overflowed...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris