fallow
Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one yearGround ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
» My field has turned into fallow land.
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3 senses(uncountable)Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
Grünbrache, Kulturbrache, Rotationsbrache
парpar
парpar
(uncountable)Uncultivated land.
Brache, Brachland
парpar
cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons
(countable, uncountable)The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.
Examples
6 sentencesMy field has turned into fallow land.
That fallow paddy field does not yield anymore.
Every seven years we let the land lie fallow.
Their field has not been used, it has been left fallow.
This field is fallow.
deDieses Feld liegt brach. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
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Origin
[Alt: A photograph of a ploughed field.][Alt: A photograph of a ploughed field.]
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Forms
plural: fallowsWord family
8 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable