Meaning

3 senses
  1. (uncountable)Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.

    Grünbrache, Kulturbrache, Rotationsbrache

    парpar

    парpar

  2. (uncountable)Uncultivated land.

    Brache, Brachland

    парpar

    cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons

  3. (countable, uncountable)The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. My field has turned into fallow land.

  2. That fallow paddy field does not yield anymore.

  3. Every seven years we let the land lie fallow.

  4. Their field has not been used, it has been left fallow.

  5. This field is fallow.

    deDieses Feld liegt brach. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
ground left unseeded for a year:
Русский
By meaning 1
ground left unseeded for a year:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
ground left unseeded for a year:
uncultivated land:

Origin

[Alt: A photograph of a ploughed field.]

[Alt: A photograph of a ploughed field.]

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