Usually means: Land left unplanted to recover.
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  1. fallow: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fallow, fallow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fallow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fallow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fallow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fallow, fallow: Wordnik
  7. fallow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fallow: Wiktionary
  9. fallow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fallow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fallow: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fallow, fallow: Dictionary.com
  13. fallow (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Fallow (album), Fallow (color), Fallow (disambiguation), Fallow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Fallow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. fallow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. fallow: Rhymezone
  18. Fallow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. fallow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. fallow: Free Dictionary
  21. fallow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. fallow: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. fallow (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary

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  1. fallow: Legal dictionary

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  2. fallow: Medical dictionary

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  1. fallow: Idioms

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  1. FALLOW: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

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  1. Fallow: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Agriculture Glossary (No longer online)
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (agriculture, uncountable) Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
noun:  (agriculture, uncountable) Uncultivated land.
noun:  The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.
adjective:  (of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
adjective:  (of agricultural land) Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.
adjective:  (figurative) Inactive; undeveloped.
verb:  (transitive) To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
adjective:  Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.

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