unploughed area

6.3

Land that has not been ploughed or used for farming

noun

: área sin arar

Rare wildflowers grew across the unploughed area at the edge of the farm.

Examples

We mapped all remaining unploughed areas for conservation purposes.
The farmer discovered an unploughed area in his field.
The birds nested in an unploughed area away from the fields.
Many unploughed areas can be found in the countryside.
Rare wildflowers grew across the unploughed area at the edge of the farm.
The birds nested in an unploughed area away from the fields.
We mapped all remaining unploughed areas for conservation purposes.

How Cultivated

cultivated land

1 2.9

plowed

2.5

to fallow

5.1

uncultivated

1 5.1

unploughed area

6.3

Surface Forms

unploughed area singular

unplowed area singular

Morphology

unplowed + area

The meaning 'an area of land not ploughed' is directly derivable from the constituents: 'unploughed' (not ploughed) + 'area' (region). The negative prefix un- and the straightforward noun phrase composition are regular, common patterns across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will readily understand the phrase.

Etymology

Unploughed area comes from a simple farm picture: imagine a patch of ground the farmer did not turn with a plough, so wildflowers and birds stay there. The word unploughed means 'not ploughed', so the phrase describes land left alone or 'not cultivated'.