Dictionary
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a.) Left unplanted after plowing; uncultivated; resting; as, fallow farmland\.
2. (a.) Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
3. (n.) Plowed land.
4. (n.) Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.
5. (n.) 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.
6. (n.) To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.
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