Thesaurus: fallow

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1. a. Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
2. n. Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.
3. n. Plowed land.
4. n. Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. adj. left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
8. adj. undeveloped but potentially useful
9. n. cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons
10. 1. Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound. Shak. 2. Etym: [Cf. Fallow, n.] Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch (Zoöl.), a small European bird, the wheatear (Saxicola ænanthe). See Wheatear. 1. Plowed land. [Obs.] Who . . . pricketh his blind horse over the fallows. Chaucer. 2. Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season. The plowing of fallows is a benefit to land. Mortimer. 3. 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. Be a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop. Sinclair. Fallow crop, the crop taken from a green fallow. [Eng.] -- Green fallow, fallow whereby land is rendered mellow and clean from weeds, by cultivating some green crop, as turnips, potatoes, etc. [Eng.] 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.
11. Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as,fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch (Zoöl.), a small Europeanbird, the wheatear (Saxicola ænanthe). See Wheatear.
12. j:100 n. cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons s. left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season s. undeveloped but potentially useful