Fallow

['fæləʊ] or ['fælo]

Definition

(noun.) cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons.

(adj.) undeveloped but potentially useful; 'a fallow gold market' .

(adj.) left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season; 'fallow farmland' .

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Definition

(a.) Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.

(n.) Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.

(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; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds.

(n.) To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Pale red or pale yellow.[2]. Untilled, unsowed.

n. Untilled land.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Quiescent, idle, uncultivated, unproductive, untilled

ANT:Cultivated, worked, tilled, sown, productive, operative, prolific, fruitful

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Definition

adj. left untilled or unsowed for a time.—n. land that has lain a year or more untilled or unsown after having been ploughed.—v.t. to plough land without seeding it.—ns. Fall′owness state of being fallow or untilled; Green fall′ow fallow where land is cleaned by a green crop as turnips.

adj. of a brownish-yellow colour.—ns. Fall′ow-chat Fall′ow-finch the wheatear or stonechat; Fall′ow-deer a yellowish-brown deer smaller than the red-deer with broad flat antlers.

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