Fallow GRE Vocabulary Flashcard

Fallow GRE Vocabulary Flashcard

/ˈfæl.əʊ/ (adj & noun)

Adjective: (agriculture) unseeded or unplanted farm or piece of land, left unseeded after plowing, uncultivated, unused – currently inactive or dormant, idle, sterile, uncreative, infertile, unproductive, barren, inert

Noun: land without crops, fallow land

Fallow land is land left to rest and regenerate. A field, or several fields, are taken out of crop rotation for a specific period of time, usually one to five years, depending on crop. … The following year, farmers would plant crops in the fallow land, while letting the other half rest or fallow.

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Antonyms: creative, fertile, productive

Noun: fallowness