رتع

مَرْتَعٌ ذ A place of pasturing: (KL:) [or of unrestrained and plentiful pasturing; ] a place where beasts pasture at pleasure; (Msb;) where they eat (S, K) and drink (K) what they please, (S, K,) going and coming therein, by day, (TA,) amid abundance of herbage, and plenty: (K:) [see 1:] pl. مَرَاتِعُ. (Msb.) ― -b2- [And Pasture itself:] one says, أَكَلُوا مَرْتَعَ الأَرْضِ [ They consumed, or ate, the pasture of the land ]. (M in art. ردم.)