Fallow

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Plowed but left unseeded during a growing season: fallow farmland.
  • adj. Characterized by inactivity: a fallow gold market.
  • n. Land left unseeded during a growing season.
  • n. The act of plowing land and leaving it unseeded.
  • n. The condition or period of being unseeded.
  • v. To plow (land) without seeding it afterward.
  • v. To plow and till (land), especially to eradicate or reduce weeds.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. A pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
  • n. Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
  • n. Uncultivated land.
  • n. An area of fallow land.
  • adj. Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
  • adj. Inactive; undeveloped.
  • v. To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Pale red or pale yellow.
  • adj. Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated.
  • n. Plowed land.
  • n. Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.
  • n. The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.
  • v. To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pale; pale-yellow; yellowish; sallow.
  • To become fallow, pale, yellowish, or withered; fade; wither.
  • Plowed and left unseeded; left for a considerable time unworked or unseeded after tillage; untilled; uncultivated; neglected: said of land: often used figuratively.
  • n. Land broken up by the plow to prepare it for future seeding; land that has lain for a considerable time unseeded after tillage.
  • n. In agriculture, the method of allowing land to lie for a season or more untilled in order to increase its power of producing crops.
  • To render fallow; put (land) into the condition of a fallow, namely, by plowing, harrowing, and breaking it without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects and rendering it mellow: as, it is well to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.
  • n. One of the strakes of a cart.
  • n.
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  • adj. undeveloped but potentially useful
  • n. cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons
  • adj. left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
    • Equivalent
    unexploited    undeveloped    unploughed    unbroken    unplowed    fallow finch   
    Antonym
    cultivated   
    Verb Form
    fallowed    fallowes    fallowing    fallowness    fallows   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    tilled land    ploughland    plowland    cultivated land    farmland    tillage    tilth   
    Cross Reference
    winter fallow    root fallow    naked fallow    a green fallow    fallow deer    dead fallow    summer-fallow    in fallow    cropped fallow    half   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    uncultivated    unplowed    untilled    leap    ley    lay   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    aloe   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    arable    unplanted    whitetail    marshy    tillable    yearling    hilly    milk-white    silver-footed    uncultivated   
     
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