The meaning of FALLOW is of a light yellowish-brown color. How to use fallow in a sentence.

The goal of fallowing is to allow the land to recover and store organic matter while retaining moisture and disrupting pest life cycles and soil-borne pathogens by temporarily removing their hosts. Crop …

FALLOW definition: (of land) plowed and left unseeded for a season or more; uncultivated. See examples of fallow used in a sentence.

A fallow period is a time when very little is being achieved. There followed something of a fallow period professionally, until a job came up in the summer.

fallow marked by inactivity; plowed unseeded land: They let the land go fallow for a season.

fallow adjective (TIME) A fallow period of time is one in which very little happens:

To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land. [1913 Webster]

Fallow comes from the old English word for plowing, and refers to the practice of leaving fields unplowed in rotation — when a field lies fallow, the soil regains nutrients that are sucked up by over-planting.

“Fallow is generous and indulgent, relaxed and innovative, and in short, it’s everything you want from eating out." Squaremeal

The state of being fallow; a period during which land is allowed to lie fallow. Also figurative.