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- noun Plural form of
fallow ;uncultivated land . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
fallow .
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Examples
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Their rapid seedling growth is conducive to short-term fallows and to replanting if management should reduce growth vigor.
Chapter 10 1996
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Their rapid seedling growth is conducive to short-term fallows and to replanting if management should reduce growth vigor.
Chapter 46 1990
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"These old forests, called fallows, have traditionally been classified as high forest pristine forest on well-drained ground by Western researchers," Balee wrote in 2003.
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In the effects of time, in what in Agriculture are technically called fallows -- the repose of the fields -- we recognise by science certain chemical actions, which are continually exercised by the elements of the atmosphere upon the whole surface of our globe.
Familiar Letters on Chemistry Justus Freiherr von Liebig 1838
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And it would be one of the best kind of fallows for the brain.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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Weird thing is, later, there really is no world outside of A.A.—by house masters' terms—poetic A.A.s want in the house, too; and there are only a few places for ex-barn fallows like us to shelter.
The Cool Report Ann Bogle 2012
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Several techniques have been developed, including the integration of multipurpose legumes, agroforestry and improved fallows, but scientific breakthroughs and large-scale adoption by small-holder farmers are yet to materialize.
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Research has shown the benefits of biological nutrient cycling by integration of legumes into the cropping system, improved fallows and agroforestry.
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His direct truth hurt and when one has not enough arguments punch on the face fallows.
Osho Sam Jordison 2006
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The farm was not so large or rambling as to tire the mind or foot, yet wide enough and full of change — rich pasture, hazel copse, green valleys, fallows brown, and golden breast-lands pillowing into nooks of fern, clumps of shade for horse or heifer, and for rabbits sandy warren, furzy cleve for hare and partridge, not without a little mere for willows and for wild-ducks.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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