FALLOW

fallow

Noun

  1. Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
  2. Uncultivated land.
  3. An area of fallow land.
  4. The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.

Verb

  1. To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.

Adjective

fallow

  1. Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
  2. Inactive; undeveloped.

Adjective (etymology 2)

  1. Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
    a fallow deer or greyhound


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