| 单词 | long fallow |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslong fallow long fallow n. (a piece of) land left uncultivated for a long period; also attributive, designating a method of cultivation in which land is left uncultivated for a long period. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > fallow land > long fallow long fallow1810 bare-fallow1831 1810 Evans & Ruffy's Farmers Jrnl. 24 Nov. 250/2 On some long fallows for Barley in 1801, April 4th, on half of one piece I had dibbled three bushels an acre. 1960 G. E. Evans Horse in Furrow x. 131 A bastard summer-land is so called to distinguish [it] from a true summer-land or long fallow. 1971 World Archaeol. 3 135 They [sc. the Tifalmin] practise long-fallow cultivation, clearing a patch of forest and abandoning it after two or three years, probably for fifteen years or more. 1998 E. Wollenberg & A. S. Nawir in E. Wollenberg & A. Ingles Incomes from Forest viii. 159 It [sc. FAO definition of forest] includes open and closed forest, as well as long fallows. < as lemmas |
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