🌾 Able to farm 🧫 Able to grow

cultivatable

4.4

Land that can be farmed to grow crops

adjective
/ˈkʌltɪˌveɪtəbl/

: cultivable

America's vast expanses of "unsettled" cultivatable land appeared as the answer to the resource production and urban crowding problems plaguing England.

Examples

China's per capita water resources are one-fourth of the amount of the world average, and its per capita area of cultivatable farmland is 40 percent of the world average.

Academic text (2005)
Farmers are searching for more cultivatable areas to grow crops and increase their yields.
When this is the case, competition over cultivatable land increases.

Academic text (1999)
The government is investing in technology to make previously barren land cultivatable for agriculture.
After several years of improvement, the once rocky terrain is now cultivatable and fertile.

Synonyms

arable

vscultivatable

5 5.5

Land that can be used to grow crops

is more general about productive use rather than a technical label

farmable

vscultivatable

1 3.0

Land that can be used to grow crops

focuses on general usability rather than specific agricultural terms

tillable

vscultivatable

1 5.8

Land that can be plowed and used to grow crops

is about general productive suitability without needing ploughing

cultivable

vscultivatable

5.8

Land that is good for farming

is the longer alternative form with identical meaning

Antonyms

uncultivatable

8.7

Land that cannot grow crops or be farmed

How Cultivable

fertile

34 3.2

cultivatable

4.4

barren

5 7.4

Surface Forms

cultivatable positive

Morphology

cultivatable = cultivate (transparent) = cultivate + able

The adjective is directly formed by adding the productive suffix '-able' to the verb 'cultivate', meaning 'able to be cultivated'.

Etymology

Cultivatable comes from cultivate, a word that originally meant 'to care for' or 'prepare the soil for crops' and is related to the common word culture. So cultivatable land is land that can be farmed or made ready to grow crops.