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FALLOW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("fallow" is a kind of...):
cultivated land; farmland; ploughland; plowland; tillage; tilled land; tilth (arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops)
Derivation:
fallow (left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Undeveloped but potentially useful
Example:
a fallow gold market
Classified under:
Similar:
undeveloped; unexploited (not developed, improved, exploited or used)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
Example:
fallow farmland
Classified under:
Similar:
unbroken; unploughed; unplowed ((of farmland) not plowed)
Derivation:
fallow (cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb fallow
