fallow

1. a. Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound. Source: opted

2. n. Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Source: opted

3. n. Plowed land. Source: opted

4. n. Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

7. adj. left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season Source: wordnet

8. adj. undeveloped but potentially useful Source: wordnet

9. n. cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons Source: wordnet

10. Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as,fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch (Zoöl.), a small Europeanbird, the wheatear (Saxicola ænanthe). See Wheatear. Source: adambom

11. 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 Source: ecdict

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