fallow
fallow is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
- noun. Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.
- noun. Plowed land.
- noun. Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons
- adjective. undeveloped but potentially useful
"a fallow gold market"
- adjective. left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
"fallow farmland"
Common word forms
fallows, fallowed, fallowing, fallowness
Words from these letters
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