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# fallow

«fallow» in Mova's school dictionary: **a field that is ploughed but left without crops for a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (fallow); noun (fallow, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Fallow land is a field that is ploughed but left without crops for a season so the soil can rest and get healthy again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fallow/#m1)

2) A fallow time is a quiet period when nothing much is happening or being produced. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fallow/#m2)

3) A fallow deer is a smallish deer, light brown with white spots in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fallow/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history and farming lessons it explains crop rotation, where fields take turns to rest. In stories it describes empty fields or quiet times. Phrases: «lie fallow», «leave a field fallow», «a fallow period», «fallow deer».

### examples

- The farmer left the field fallow this year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fallow/#x1)
- In the Middle Ages one field in three lay fallow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fallow/#x2)
- Letting land lie fallow helps the soil recover. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fallow/#x3)
- The team had a fallow season and won nothing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fallow/#x4)
- We saw fallow deer in the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fallow/#x5)
- Fallow deer have white spots on their backs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fallow/#x6)
- My art ideas went through a fallow patch, then came back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fallow/#x7)
- Weeds grew in the fallow field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fallow/#x8)

### note

Usually an adjective after «lie», «leave» or «be». Fallow deer is a fixed name; the plural is also «deer». Do not confuse with «follow» or «hollow».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fallow» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fallow/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.