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Arable

//ˈæɹəbl̩// adj, name, noun

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Adjective

1
Able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with pasturable lands such as heaths).
"And again, since no animal now stole, it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land […]"
2
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).

Adjective

1
(of farmland) capable of being farmed productively wordnet

Proper Noun

1
A locality in the Snowy Monaro council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Noun

1
Land that can be cropped (i.e., land that is arable); land that is being cropped (i.e., land that is in the cropping phase of a crop rotation, currently being cropped rather than used as pasture or fallow). uncountable, usually
"Arrangements for the drainage of this piece of arable were commenced last summer"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English arable, from Middle French arable, from Old French arable, from Latin arābilis, formed from arō (“plow”) + -bilis (“able to be”). Cognate with earable (“arable”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English arable, from Middle French arable, from Old French arable, from Latin arābilis, formed from arō (“plow”) + -bilis (“able to be”). Cognate with earable (“arable”).

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