fallow
/ˈfæləʊ/ · noun
Meaning
- Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
- Uncultivated land.
- The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.
- (of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
- (of agricultural land) Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.
- Inactive; undeveloped.
- To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
- (color) Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
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