Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of undergoing cultivation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being tilled or cultivated; capable of improvement or refinement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being cultivated or tilled.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
cultivated orfarmed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively
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Examples
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In this way the extent of Chaldaea has been at times largely increased, a vast tract being rendered cultivable, which is otherwise either swamp or desert.
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In his new incarnation as a gentleman farmer, Villa's property became a model farm with 4000 acres of cultivable land.
Durango, Durango 2009
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In his new incarnation as a gentleman farmer, Villa's property became a model farm with 4000 acres of cultivable land.
Durango, Durango 2009
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In his new incarnation as a gentleman farmer, Villa's property became a model farm with 4000 acres of cultivable land.
Durango, Durango 2009
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In his new incarnation as a gentleman farmer, Villa's property became a model farm with 4000 acres of cultivable land.
Durango, Durango 2009
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Only lithic mulching produced enough nutrients—just barely—to make Rapa Nui's terrible soil cultivable.
Don't Blame the Natives Charles C. Mann 2011
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In his new incarnation as a gentleman farmer, Villa's property became a model farm with 4000 acres of cultivable land.
Durango, Durango 2009
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Imagine a country that relies heavily on agriculture, and yet has produced no data on the quality of cultivable land since the 1970s.
The politics of Egypt's feeble statistics Brian Whitaker 2010
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Only a fifth of Ralegan Siddhi's land was cultivable when he was a child, Vijay Hazare said, but now almost all land has valuable crops grown on it.
Anna Hazare: the divisive face of a new India | profile 2011
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# About 27,242 hectares of cultivable land will be lost.
Global Voices in English » Bangladesh, India: No To Tipaimukh Dam 2009
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