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adjective
1.
capable of producing crops; suitable for farming; suited to the plow and for tillage: arable land; arable soil.
noun
2.
land that can be or is cultivated.
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- About 28% of the land is arable.
- Farmers also grow vegetables and other produce on land made arable by the oasis water supply and underground streams.
- Agriculture is limited with only 20% of the land being arable.
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arable
early 15c., "suitable for plowing" (as opposed to pasture- or wood-land), from O.Fr. arable, from L. arabilis, from arare "to plow," from PIE *are- "to plow" (cf. Gk. aroun, O.C.S. orja, Lith. ariu "to plow;" Goth. arjan, O.E. erian, M.Ir. airim, Welsh arddu "to plow;" O.N. arþr "a plow"). Replaced
EXPANDnative erable, from O.E. erian "to plow."
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