cow pasture vs ley

cow pasture and ley both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cow pasture	Yes	No	No	No
ley	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ley is a hypernym of cow pasture; that is, ley is a word with a broader meaning than cow pasture:

cow pasture: a pasture for cows
ley: a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock

Other hypernyms of cow pasture include grazing land, lea, pasture, pasture land, pastureland.

cow pasture (noun)	ley (noun)
a pasture for cows	a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock