arable
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈæɹəbl̩/
arable
- (agriculture, of land) Able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with pasturable lands such as heaths).
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473 ↗:
- And again, since no animal now stole, it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land […]
- (agriculture, NGO jargon, of land) Under cultivation (within any quinquennial period) for the production of crops sown and harvested within the same agricultural year (contrasted with permanently-cropped lands such as orchards).
- French: arable, cultivable
- German: bebaubar
- Italian: arabile
- Portuguese: arável
- Russian: па́хотный
- Spanish: arable, cultivable
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