'Fallow' definitions:
Definition of 'fallow'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season; "fallow farmland"
adjective
Undeveloped but potentially useful; "a fallow gold market"
noun
Cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons
Definition of 'Fallow'
From: GCIDE
- Fallow \Fal"low\, a. [AS. fealu, fealo, pale yellow or red; akin to D. vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. f["o]lr, and prob. to Lith. palvas, OSlav. plav[u^] white, L. pallidus pale, pallere to be pale, Gr. polio`s gray, Skr. palita. Cf. Pale, Favel, a., Favor.]
- 1. Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. [Cf. Fallow, n.] Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. [1913 Webster]
- Fallow chat, Fallow finch (Zool.), a small European bird, the wheatear (Saxicola [oe]nanthe). See Wheatear. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fallow'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Fallow'
From: GCIDE
- Fallow \Fal"low\, n. [So called from the fallow, or somewhat yellow, color of naked ground; or perh. akin to E. felly, n., cf. MHG. valgen to plow up, OHG. felga felly, harrow.]
- 1. Plowed land. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Who . . . pricketh his blind horse over the fallows. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season. [1913 Webster]
- The plowing of fallows is a benefit to land. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds. [1913 Webster]
- Be a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop. --Sinclair. [1913 Webster]
- Fallow crop, the crop taken from a green fallow. [Eng.]
- Green fallow, fallow whereby land is rendered mellow and clean from weeds, by cultivating some green crop, as turnips, potatoes, etc. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fallow'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acarpous,
- achromatic,
- achromic,
- anemic,
- arable land,
- arid,
- ashen,
- ashy,
- at leisure,
- at liberty,
- at loose ends,
- aureate,
- auric,
- available,
- backset,
- barnyard,
- barren,
- barton,
- beige,
- bled white,
- bloodless,
- buff,
- buff-yellow,
- cadaverous,
- canary,
- canary-yellow,
- cattle ranch,
- celibate,
- chicken farm,
- childless,
- chloranemic,
- citron,
- citron-yellow,
- collective farm,
- colorless,
- cotton plantation,
- cream,
- creamy,
- croft,
- cultivate,
- culture,
- cut,
- dairy farm,
- dead,
- deadly pale,
- deathly pale,
- delve,
- demesne,
- demesne farm,
- desert,
- desolate,
- dig,
- dim,
- dimmed,
- dingy,
- discolored,
- disengaged,
- drained,
- dress,
- dried-up,
- dry,
- dry farm,
- dude ranch,
- dull,
- ecru,
- etiolated,
- exhausted,
- exsanguinated,
- exsanguine,
- exsanguineous,
- factory farm,
- faded,
- faint,
- farm,
- farmery,
- farmhold,
- farmland,
- farmplace,
- farmstead,
- farmyard,
- fertilize,
- flat,
- flaxen,
- force,
- free,
- fruit farm,
- fruitless,
- fur farm,
- gaunt,
- gelded,
- ghastly,
- gilded,
- gilt,
- gold,
- gold-colored,
- golden,
- grain farm,
- grange,
- grassland,
- gray,
- hacienda,
- haggard,
- harrow,
- hoe,
- homecroft,
- homefarm,
- homestead,
- hueless,
- hypochromic,
- idle,
- impotent,
- ineffectual,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- issueless,
- jejune,
- jobless,
- kibbutz,
- kolkhoz,
- lackluster,
- leached,
- leaden,
- leisure,
- leisured,
- lemon,
- lemon-yellow,
- list,
- livid,
- location,
- lumpen,
- lurid,
- lusterless,
- luteolous,
- lutescent,
- mains,
- manor farm,
- mat,
- mealy,
- menopausal,
- muddy,
- mulch,
- neutral,
- nonfertile,
- nonproducing,
- nonproductive,
- nonprolific,
- ocherish,
- ocherous,
- ochery,
- ochreous,
- ochroid,
- ochrous,
- ochry,
- off,
- off duty,
- off work,
- or,
- orchard,
- otiose,
- out of employ,
- out of harness,
- out of work,
- pale,
- pale as death,
- pale-faced,
- pallid,
- pasture,
- pasty,
- pen,
- plantation,
- plow,
- poultry farm,
- primrose,
- primrose-colored,
- primrose-yellow,
- prune,
- rake,
- ranch,
- rancheria,
- rancho,
- saffron,
- saffron-colored,
- saffron-yellow,
- sallow,
- sand-colored,
- sandy,
- sheep farm,
- sickly,
- sine prole,
- spade,
- station,
- steading,
- sterile,
- stock farm,
- straw,
- straw-colored,
- sucked dry,
- tallow-faced,
- teemless,
- thin,
- thin out,
- till,
- till the soil,
- toft,
- toneless,
- truck farm,
- uncolored,
- uncultivated,
- unemployable,
- unemployed,
- unfertile,
- unfruitful,
- unoccupied,
- unplowed,
- unproductive,
- unprolific,
- unsown,
- untilled,
- virgin,
- wan,
- washed-out,
- waste,
- wasted,
- waxen,
- weak,
- weed,
- weed out,
- whey-faced,
- white,
- without issue,
- work,
- xanthic,
- xanthous,
- yellow,
- yellowish