unsowed
- a word derived from sow.
Example Sentences
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Up to 82.3 million acres, or 20% of all U.S. cropland, will be left unsowed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The spring rains come, but the rice is left unsowed, for a fair crop attracts the spoilers, and only the poor are left in peace.
From The Argus Pheasant by Beecham, John Charles
The bare ground with hoarie mosse bestrowed Must be their bed, their pillow was unsowed And the frutes of the forrest was their feast.
From The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Balch, Frederic Homer
Fallow, fal′ō, adj. left untilled or unsowed for a time.—n. land that has lain a year or more untilled or unsown after having been ploughed.—v.t. to plough land without seeding it.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
