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cultivable

cultivable

5.8
Land that is good for farming
  • adjective
  • /ˈkʌltəvəbəl/
translation icon : cultivable
  • The farmers were excited to discover that the previously barren hillsides were now cultivable after extensive soil improvement efforts.
  • cultivable land

Examples

  • The survey, Report on the Water Resources of Transjordan and Their Development, by Michael Ionides, a British employee of the Transjordan government, provided the first estimate of available water and cultivable land.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Cultivable land was not scarce, but irrigated and/or terraced plots and established banana groves were in short supply.

    Academic text (1998)
  • A small group of community participants, mainly social and community leaders, have a little cultivable land.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The total population shot up by about 67 percent, while cultivable land only increased by 20 percent in the same period.

    Academic text (1995)
  • The work of "scouring" America of woods implies the clearing of forests to create cultivable land.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Although Israeli land expropriations have taken Palestinian agricultural land out of production, the actual areas of cultivable properties seized have apparently been small.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The main environmental problems reported by citizens in the latter study were the destruction of the countryside, air pollution, noise pollution, and loss of cultivable land.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Although crop cultivation is the most common livelihood option to escape poverty in Koyra, the lack of capital and available cultivable lands makes this unreachable.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The priority of the Fertile Crescent, according to Diamond, resulted from its climate in relation to the distribution of cultivable grains (the second ultimate factor).

    Academic text (1999)
  • The people who, in Mesopotamia, Greece, Asia Minor, and elsewhere, destroyed the forests to obtain cultivable land never dreamed that by removing, along with the forests, the collecting centers and reservoirs of moisture, they were laying the basis for the present forlorn state of those countries.

    Blog text (14)

Synonyms

arable
vscultivable
5 5.5

Land that can be used to grow crops

applies more broadly to land fit for productive farming
farmable
vscultivable
1 3.0

Land that can be used to grow crops

is about overall productive suitability rather than specific farming use
tillable
vscultivable
1 5.8

Land that can be plowed and used to grow crops

is broader covering farming suitability not only ploughing ability
cultivatable
vscultivable
4.4

Land that can be farmed to grow crops

is the same meaning but differs only as an alternative spelling
culturable
vscultivable
  • Specialized
6.2

Able to be grown in a lab or in soil

restricts meaning to land suitable for productive farming
plantable
vscultivable
3.1

Able to be put in soil so it can grow

indicates broader farming suitability beyond just planting ability
growable
vscultivable
4.4

Something people can grow or make larger

limits use to land suitability for productive farming only

Antonyms

Land that cannot grow crops

How Cultivable

fertile
34 3.2
cultivable
5.8
barren
5 7.4

Surface Forms

cultivable positive

Morphology

cultivable = cultivate (transparent) = cultivate + able

Meaning is directly derived from the verb 'cultivate' with the productive suffix '-able' meaning 'able to be'.

Etymology

The word cultivable comes from cultivate and is related to culture, which means 'to care for' or 'to till the soil'. So, cultivable describes land that can be worked and used for farming.