arable

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   suitable for or used in growing crops

   Only a narrow strip of the valley is arable because the surrounding slopes are rocky.

2. 2
   noun

   land used or suitable for growing crops

   The estate includes forty hectares of arable and twenty hectares of pasture.

From Middle English arable and Old French arable, from Latin arabilis, 'capable of being plowed.' The Latin adjective is based on arare, 'to plow,' plus -bilis, 'able to be.'

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