fallow

  1. Noun.  (agriculture, uncountable) Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
  2. Noun.  (agriculture, uncountable) Uncultivated land.
  3. Noun.  (agriculture, obsolete) An area of fallow land.
  4. Adjective.  (context, of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
  5. Adjective.  Inactive; undeveloped.
  6. Verb.  (transitive) To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
  7. Adjective.  A pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.

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