fallow
IPA: fˈæɫoʊ
noun
- (agriculture, uncountable) Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
- (agriculture, uncountable) Uncultivated land.
- The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.
verb
- (transitive) To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
adjective
- (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.
- (figurative) Inactive; undeveloped.
- (color) Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
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Examples of "fallow" in Sentences
- A fallow field is visible in the foreground.
- Fallow is the debut album by The Weakerthans.
- Fallow deer and sheep also graze in the park.
- Fallow stores made the street to be more creepy.
- Skylarks, fallow deer and hares inhabit the area.
- The fallow enclosure was redesigned and replanted.
- All except the fallow deer are indigenous to the Cape.
- It is inhabited by the largest herd of fallow deer in England.
- Fallow is the stage of crop rotation in which the land is left uncultivated.
- Henceforth the cultivated land lay fallow and is now grazed by sheep and goats.
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