ARABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arable mean? 

• ARABLE (adjective)
  The adjective ARABLE has 1 sense:

1. (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively

  Familiarity information: ARABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of farmland) capable of being farmed productively

Synonyms:

arable; cultivable; cultivatable; tillable

Similar:

productive (producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly))

Derivation:

arability (the quality of land that is appropriate for cultivation)

 Context examples 

On the south of the house is, as you perceive, a large district of arable land, cut up into small fields, with stone walls between them.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is especially a problem in Bangladesh, where it is estimated that groundwater pumped from shallow aquifers for irrigation adds one million kilograms of arsenic per year to arable soil.

(Parboiling husked rice reduces arsenic content, SciDev.Net)