Adjective: arable er-u-bul or a-ru-bul [N. Amer], a-ru-bul [Brit]
- (of land) capable of being farmed productively
"The farmer surveyed his arable fields, ready for planting";
- cultivable, cultivatable, tillable
- Relating to or involving the cultivation of crops on ploughed land
"Arable farming focuses on growing crops rather than raising livestock"
- Arable land that is worked by ploughing and sowing and raising crops
"The farmer surveyed his arable land before planting season";
- cultivated land, farmland, plowland [US], ploughland [Brit, Cdn], tilled land, tillage, tilth, cropland, arable land
Derived forms: arables
See also: productive
Encyclopedia: Arable