arable

1375–1425; <Latin arābilis, equivalent to arā(re) to plow + -bilis-ble; replacing late Middle English erable, equivalent to er(en) to plow (Old English erian) + -able-able

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ar·a·bil·i·ty, noun

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I wanted to find a more efficient way to use land and resources so that we could let more arable areas remain wild, or to remain lower production but allow for greater biodiversity.
No Trees Harmed: MIT Aims to One Day Grow Your Kitchen Table in a Lab|Jason Dorrier|January 24, 2021|Singularity Hub
This was matched by an increasing ability to redirect water supplies and tap into aquifers, helping turn some arid regions into fertile arable land.
Why people still starve in an age of abundance|Bobbie Johnson|December 17, 2020|MIT Technology Review
From there it enters arable land, gobbling roads, crops, animals, and houses.
Asia’s biggest climate migration|Konstantin Kakaes|November 19, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Perhaps most amazingly, it only takes seven hours to transform a piece of land from arid to arable with LNC application.
A Norwegian Startup Is Turning Dry Deserts Into Fertile Cropland|Vanessa Bates Ramirez|August 19, 2020|Singularity Hub

Water, food and arable land will be more scarce, cities more crowded and hunger more widespread.
Pope Francis Is Wrong About My Child-Free Life|Amanda Marcotte|June 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
You will, by accident listening to the show, become an expert-not-really in matters of arable farming, organic crops, and milking.
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Extensive tracts of good arable land exist in many parts of the Acadian region.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2|Various
Chief among the causes of the misery of the peasants was the extent to which arable land was converted into pasture.
The Political History of England - Vol. X.|William Hunt
Reducing more and more that famishing dog-kennel of a Brandenburg into a fruitful arable field.
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle
The idleness of arable and pasture land is as nothing compared to the idleness of the wide, rolling downs.
The Hills and the Vale|Richard Jefferies
One of these, with the adjacent domain of arable fields and woods, had the name of a villa or manse.
View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 (of 3)|Henry Hallam

British Dictionary definitions for arable

arable

/ (ˈærəbəl) /

adjective

(of land) being or capable of being tilled for the production of crops

of, relating to, or using such landarable farming

noun

arable land or farming

Word Origin for arable

C15: from Latin arābilis that can be ploughed, from arāre to plough

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