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  • past tense form of farm.
  • past participle of farm.

farmed

British  
/ fɑːmd /

adjective

  1. (of fish and game) reared on a farm rather than caught in the wild

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Today, the vast majority of caviar in the U.S. comes from farmed fish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Researchers are using species recently approved for human consumption as models and comparing the genomes of farmed insects with those of pre-domestication individuals preserved in entomological collections.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

But the protesting families, most of whom earn a living from daily wage work, say they have farmed the land for generations.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Visiting one celebrated restaurant in San Francisco, he describes the preparation of commercially farmed abalone steaks as someone who knows his way around a commercial kitchen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Except in the towns there was evidence of a population which had once lived here and farmed and had its being and had then been driven out.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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