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Adjective
/ˈfalō/,
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(of farmland) Plowed and harrowed but left unsown for a period in order to restore its fertility as part of a crop rotation or to avoid surplus production,
  1. (of farmland) Plowed and harrowed but left unsown for a period in order to restore its fertility as part of a crop rotation or to avoid surplus production
    • - incentives for farmers to let the land lie fallow in order to reduce grain surpluses
  2. Inactive
    • - long fallow periods when nothing seems to happen
  3. (of a sow) Not pregnant

Verb
  1. Leave (land) fallow

Noun
  1. A pale brown or reddish yellow color

  1. cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons
  2. left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season; "fallow farmland"
  3. undeveloped but potentially useful; "a fallow gold market"
  4. Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of dissimilar types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons for various benefits such as to avoid the build up of pathogens and pests that often occurs when one species is continuously cropped. ...
  5. Fallow is the debut album by The Weakerthans.
  6. Fallow is a pale brown color that is the color of sandy soil in fallow fields.
  7. Fallows is a surname, and may refer to: * Fearon Fallows (1789-1831), English astronomer * James Fallows (born 1949), American print and radio journalist * Samuel Fallows (1835-1922), American clergyman
  8. (fallowness) The state or quality of being fallow
  9. (Fallowing) A program to generate water by paying farmers to fallow land, i.e., not grow crops. The water not used for irrigation is then transferred to urban areas or stored for future use.
  10. (fallowing) to take land out of production. Fallowing can be part of a crop rotation plan, but is rare now. In the arid west that may mean that any withheld water is then available for another use, such as a transfer. ...
  11. Light reddish or yellowish brown.
  12. A crop field left uncultivated for a period of time, so as to regain its productive capacity. Fields left uncultivated for a short period are grass fallows; longer periods involve bush fallows, and still longer resting periods involve natural forest fallows. ...
  13. Land plowed and tilled and left unplanted.
  14. Resting land from deliberate cropping, not necessarily without cultivation or grazing, but without sowing
  15. cropland, tilled or untilled, allowed to lie idle during the whole or greater part of the growing season.
  16. In order to prevent a decrease in the fertility of agricultural soil, it was standard practice in Assyrian times to let fields lie fallow, i.e. not cultivate them, in alternating years.
  17. Previously cultivated land kept free from crops or weeds during at least one growing season. (6)
  18. Cropland left idle in order to restore productivity through accumulation of moisture.
  19. durmiente; inactivo; barbecho; baldío; fallow deer
  20. a phase when land is not being actively cropped
  21. refers to woody vegetation resulting from the clearing of natural forest for shifting to agriculture. It is an intermediate class between forest and non-forest land uses. Part of the area, which is not under cultivation may have the appearance of a secondary forest. ...
  22. (n.): the practice of voluntarily interrupting farming activities on the land for a period of two years or more so as to allow the natural vegetation cover to restore the soil when it has been exhausted by a succession of crop production or overgrazing. Back
  23. a field left for a year with just grass in order for it to naturally regain its nutrients after several years of crops. This is usually part of a Crop Rotation cycle.
  24. Pale cream to light fawn color; pale yellow; yellow-red. Color definitions may vary by breed. Always check the breed standard for the definitive color description.
  25. Land that is ordinarily used for crops but allowed to lie idle between crops.