Fallow (color)
WordNet
adjective
(1) Undeveloped but potentially useful
"A fallow gold market"
(2) Left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
"Fallow farmland"
noun
(3) Cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons
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Etymology 1
From , from the , perhaps a derivation of , assimilated in English to the adjective fallow because of the color of plowed earth. Originally "plowed land", then "land plowed but not planted"
Noun
- Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
- Uncultivated land.
- An area of fallow land.
Adjective
fallow
- Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
- Inactive; undeveloped.
Etymology 2
From from ; akin to Old High German , Latin , Ancient Greek , Armenian (Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2006). Compare German .