Arability
capable of producing crops; suitable for farming; suited to the plow and for tillage:
arable land; arable soil.
land that can be or is cultivated.
adjective
(of land) being or capable of being tilled for the production of crops
of, relating to, or using such land: arable farming
noun
arable land or farming
adj.
early 15c., “suitable for plowing” (as opposed to pasture- or wood-land), from old french arable (12c.), from latin arabilis, from arare “to plow,” from pie -are- “to plow” (cf. greek aroun, old church slavonic orja, lithuanian ariu “to plow;” gothic arjan, old english erian, middle irish airim, welsh arddu “to plow;” old norse arþr “a plow”). replaced by late 18c. native erable, from old english erian “to plow,” from the same pie source.
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