arable
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5.5
- adjective
- /ˈɛrəbəl/
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arable
- Unlike in manufacturing, India has a competitive advantage in agriculture, with plenty of arable land, sunshine, and water.
- arable land
- arable fields
- arable acres
When I go out and plow a field, I don't just turn turf into arable land.
- When I go out and plow a field, I don't just turn turf into arable land.
- Because to me it seemed like you're trying to show that a lot of land or arable land is that land that can grow crops.
- It's a huge country and still under populated relative to the amount of arable land and livable countryside and so on and so forth.
- I mean that they, for them, it's, it's, they're looking forward and they want to secure up arable land, natural resources.
- South cars made life much easier, but the highway system destroyed, I don't know how much arable land.
Examples
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The worldwide organic acreage is still small, with only approximately 1 percent of all arable land certified organic.
Academic text (2012) -
Use as much arable land of the planet as you possibly can.
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No resources, no arable land, no water, no fish, you have nothing.
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What had been a huge range of arable land is now a desert.
Academic text (1997) -
Which is why today in the world you can produce much more food per acre of arable land than ever before.
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Across the region, people abandoned their homes in a desperate search for arable land.
Academic text (2007) -
Six billion mouths to feed on a world with shrinking arable land and resources.
Fiction book (2001) -
Population growth reduces available arable land while requiring agricultural productivity and output to grow rapidly to avoid shortages.
Academic text (1993) -
Only 10% of the land is arable, desertification is advancing, and rainfall is chronically erratic.
Academic text (2008) -
The farmer carefully selected arable land to grow wheat and corn this season.
Synonyms
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3.2
Land or soil that grows many crops
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3.0
Land that can be used to grow crops
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5.8
Land that can be plowed and used to grow crops
Land that is good for farming
Land that can be farmed to grow crops
Antonyms
How Arable
Surface Forms
Etymology
Arable comes from the Latin verb arare, which means 'to plough'. So arable land is land 'able to be ploughed' and good for growing crops.