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fallow
1[ fal-oh ]
adjective
- (of land) plowed and left unseeded for a season or more; uncultivated.
- not in use; inactive:
My creative energies have lain fallow this year.
noun
- land that has undergone plowing and harrowing and has been left unseeded for one or more growing seasons.
verb (used with object)
- to make (land) fallow for agricultural purposes.
fallow
2[ fal-oh ]
adjective
- pale-yellow; light-brown; dun.
fallow
1/ ˈfæləʊ /
adjective
- of a light yellowish-brown colour
fallow
2/ ˈfæləʊ /
adjective
- (of land) left unseeded after being ploughed and harrowed to regain fertility for a crop
- (of an idea, state of mind, etc) undeveloped or inactive, but potentially useful
noun
- land treated in this way
verb
- tr to leave (land) unseeded after ploughing and harrowing it
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Derived Forms
- ˈfallowness, noun
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Other Words From
- fallow·ness noun
- un·fallowed adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fallow1
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Example Sentences
The mobilizing energy of the campaign fell fallow after Inauguration Day in 2009.
Many of the signs posted on the fields that are supposed to be left fallow now litter the road ditches.
But cider production and consumption is on the rise after a long fallow period.
Professionally, Vidal's last decade while not fallow was not golden.
For the next three decades the team lay fallow, promising much, achieving nothing.
In no farm, however, is the fallow laid aside; it is considered as indispensable for wheat, and on poor lands for rye.
This appears clear from Aristotle placing the bubalus with the stags and fallow deer, and not with the oxen.
There are many herds of them in the royal menagerie; and they produce together as freely as the fallow-deer.
It would be a difficult point to determine the original species of the fallow-deer.
The smallest roe-bucks are generally of a fallow colour, and the largest brown.
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