Associations to the word «Fallow»

Wiktionary

FALLOW, noun. (agriculture) (uncountable) Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
FALLOW, noun. (agriculture) (uncountable) Uncultivated land.
FALLOW, noun. (agriculture) (obsolete) (countable) An area of fallow land.
FALLOW, noun. The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.
FALLOW, adjective. (of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
FALLOW, adjective. (figurative) Inactive; undeveloped.
FALLOW, verb. (transitive) To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
FALLOW, adjective. Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
FALLOW CROP, noun. (agriculture)The crop taken from a green fallow field.
FALLOW CROPS, noun. Plural of fallow crop
FALLOW DEER, noun. A ruminant mammal (Dama dama) belonging to the family Cervidae.

Dictionary definition

FALLOW, noun. Cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons.
FALLOW, adjective. Left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season; "fallow farmland".
FALLOW, adjective. Undeveloped but potentially useful; "a fallow gold market".

Wise words

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