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Fallow

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Etymology 1Modificar

From Old English fealh (“‘fallow land’”), from the Proto-Germanic *falgo, perhaps a derivation of Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“‘to turn’”), assimilated in English to the adjective fallow because of the color of plowed earth. Originally "plowed land", then "land plowed but not planted"

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Singular
Fallow

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural Fallows

Fallow (countable and uncountable; plural Fallows)
  1. Patrono:Agriculture Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
  2. Patrono:Agriculture Uncultivated land.
  3. Patrono:Agriculture An area of fallow land.
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ground left unseeded for a year
uncultivated land
obsolete: an area of fallow land
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fallow

  1. (of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
  2. Inactive; undeveloped.
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of land, left unseeded
inactive, undeveloped

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Infinitive
to Fallow

Third person singular
Fallows

Simple past
Fallowed

Past participle
Fallowed

Present participle
Fallowing

to Fallow (third-person singular simple present Fallows, present participle Fallowing, simple past and past participle Fallowed)
  1. (transitive) To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
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plough land without sowing seeds

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From Middle English falow from Old English fealu; akin to Old High German falo (“‘pale, fallow’”), Latin palleo (“‘to be pale’”), Ancient Greek πολιός (polios), “‘gray’”), Armenian [[ալիք#Patrono:Hy|ալիք]] (alik'), “‘wave, gray hair’”) (Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2006). Compare German falb.

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Fallow (comparative more Fallow, superlative most Fallow)

Positive
Fallow

Comparative
more Fallow

Superlative
most Fallow

  1. A pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
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light brown; dun

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