fallow

noun

1. (uncountable)Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
2. (uncountable)Uncultivated land.
3. (countable, uncountable)The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.

   “By a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop.”

adj

1. Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
2. Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.
3. (figuratively)Inactive; undeveloped.

   “a fallow period in one's career”

   “After two more homeland hits and a fallow two years, Pickettywitch was parked and junked.”

4. Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.

   “a fallow deer or greyhound”

   “How does your fallow greyhound, sir?”

verb

1. (transitive)To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.