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Meaning of 'fallow' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Fallow [ a.]
- Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
2 . Fallow [ n.]
- Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.
- Plowed land.
- Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.
- 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.
- 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.

Meaning of 'fallow' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . fallow [ s]
Meaning (1):
- undeveloped but potentially useful
Example in sentence:
  • a fallow gold market
Meaning (2):
- left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
Example in sentence:
  • fallow farmland

Nearby Words:

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