Definition of fallow Fallow

/fæˈlowˌ/ - [fatlow] - fal•low

We found 21 definitions of fallow from 6 different sources.

What does fallow mean?

Noun Plural: fallows
fallow - cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons
		cultivated land, ploughland, plowland, tilled land, farmland, tillage, tilth arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
Adjective fallow, fallower, fallowest
fallow - left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season; "fallow farmland"
		unploughed, unplowed, unbroken (of farmland) not plowed; "unplowed fields"; "unbroken land"
fallow - undeveloped but potentially useful; "a fallow gold market"

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fallow (Noun)
Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
fallow (Noun)
Uncultivated land.
fallow (Noun)
An area of fallow land.
fallow (Verb)
To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
fallow (Adjective)
Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
fallow (Adjective)
Inactive; undeveloped.
fallow (Adjective)
A pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.

fallow (a.)
Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
fallow (n.)
Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.
fallow (n.)
Plowed land.
fallow (n.)
Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.
fallow (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.
fallow (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.

fallow
fal′ō, adj. left untilled or unsowed for a time.—n. land that has lain a year or more untilled or unsown after having been ploughed.—v.t. to plough land without seeding it.—ns. Fall′owness, state of being fallow or untilled; Green fall′ow, fallow where land is cleaned by a green crop, as turnips. [Ety. dub.; prob. an assumed A.S. fealgian, that may be confounded with the following word, from the reddish colour of unsown land.]
fallow
fal′ō, adj. of a brownish-yellow colour.—ns. Fall′ow-chat, Fall′ow-finch, the wheatear or stonechat; Fall′ow-deer, a yellowish-brown deer smaller than the red-deer, with broad flat antlers. [A.S. falu; cf. Ger. fahl, Ice. folr.]

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