What is "arable" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does arable mean in English? Meaning of arable definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "arable" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "arable": (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively

Adjective

  • Meaning: (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively
  • Synonyms: arable cultivable cultivatable tillable
  • Similar: productive
  • Adjective: (agriculture, of land) Able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with pasturable lands such as heaths). 1945, George Orwell, Animal Farm, chapter 6 And again, since no animal now stole, it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land […]1945, George Orwell, Animal Farm, chapter 6 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).
  • Synonyms:

    cultivable, plowable, tillable,

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    arable in English: arable
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