tillable

Fit for farming

Tillable describes land that can be plowed and cultivated for crops.

The word appears mainly in agricultural and real estate contexts: The farm has 200 tillable acres.

Land that is rocky, swampy, or too steep may not be tillable.

arable

plowable

Able to be tilled

agricultural · croppable · harvestable · workable · productive · fallow · cropland · acreage · preparable · tractable

soil

loam

Fertile soil mixture

  • topsoilNutrient-rich surface earth
  • alluvialDeposited by moving water
  • clayMoldable earth for ceramics

sandy · silt · friable · humus · subsoil · earthen · composted · amended · conditioned · enriched

preparation

plow

Tool for turning soil

furrow · seedbed · plowing · cultivation · disking · harrowing · spade · hoe · cultivator · seeding

fertile

nutrient-rich

Containing abundant nourishment

bountiful · yielding · fruitful · prolific · verdant · lush · generative · nourishing

Opposites
agricultural suitability

tillableuntillable

Cannot be farmed

uncultivable · barren · infertile · unplowable · unproductive

Family

till, tiller, tilling, tills, tilled, tillage, tillers, untilled

Familiarity
Top 500,000
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