fallow
adjective
(of land) plowed and left unseeded for a season or more; uncultivated.
fallows
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present tense formof fallow (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Swidden-fallow systems, he argues, maintain a mosaic of fields, fallows, and forests, that is heterogeneous and therefore resilient to climate change.
From National Geographic ● Mar. 8, 2016
Today Mr. Skov fallows a fifth of his fields, and canal water that once flowed from March to October arrives in June and vanishes as early as August.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2015
Around 25% are using improved fallows with nitrogen-fixing trees, a scientific farming approach developed and introduced into Sauri by the World Agroforestry Center.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even when the dodge was detected the fields and fallows had been pretty much stripped of the birds.
From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous
Phyllis had spent her morning out seeding, as every other farmer in the district was doing, while her hired man was busy with plough and team breaking the last year's fallows.
From The Way of the Strong by Ridgwell Cullum
