Adjective: fallow fa-low
- Left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
"fallow farmland"
- Undeveloped but potentially useful
"a fallow gold market"
- Cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons
"The farmer left the field fallow to restore soil fertility"
- Leave (land) unseeded after being ploughed and harrowed to regain fertility for a crop
"They decided to fallow the field for a year"
- Become inactive or unproductive
"His creativity seemed to fallow during that difficult period"
Derived forms: fallows, fallowing, fallowed
See also: unbroken, undeveloped, unexploited, unploughed [Brit, Cdn], unplowed [N. Amer]
Type of: arable, arable land, cropland, cultivated land, farmland, ploughland [Brit, Cdn], plowland [US], tillage, tilled land, tilth
Encyclopedia: Fallow, William