Fallow

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  • adjective. Plowed but left unseeded during a growing season.
  • adjective. Characterized by inactivity.
  • noun. Land left unseeded during a growing season.
  • noun. The act of plowing land and leaving it unseeded.
  • noun. The condition or period of being unseeded.
  • transitive verb. To plow (land) without seeding it afterward.
  • transitive verb. To plow and till (land), especially to eradicate or reduce weeds.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To become fallow, pale, yellowish, or withered; fade; wither.
  • Pale; pale-yellow; yellowish; sallow.
  • 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.
  • Plowed and left unseeded; left for a considerable time unworked or unseeded after tillage; untilled; uncultivated; neglected: said of land: often used figuratively.
  • noun. Land broken up by the plow to prepare it for future seeding; land that has lain for a considerable time unseeded after tillage.
  • noun. In agriculture, the method of allowing land to lie for a season or more untilled in order to increase its power of producing crops.
  • noun. One of the strakes of a cart.
  • noun. undefined
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Pale red or pale yellow.
  • adjective. Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated.
  • adjective. a small European bird, the wheatear (Saxicola Ĺ“nanthe). See Wheatear.
  • adjective. undefined
  • transitive verb. To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow.
  • noun. Plowed land.
  • noun. Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.
  • noun. The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.
  • noun. the crop taken from a green fallow.
  • noun. fallow whereby land is rendered mellow and clean from weeds, by cultivating some green crop, as turnips, potatoes, etc.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. A pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
  • noun. Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
  • noun. Uncultivated land.
  • noun. An area of fallow land.
  • adjective. Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
  • adjective. Inactive; undeveloped.
  • verb. To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. undeveloped but potentially useful
  • noun. cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons
  • adjective. left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
  • Word Usage
    "The term fallow, in Agriculture, designates that period in which the soil, left to the influence of the atmosphere, becomes enriched with those soluble mineral constituents."
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