Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being farmed, in any sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being farmed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of land Suitable for
farming .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Research into the life histories of many butterflies with economic potential is well under way, so that an increasing number of species will become "farmable" and will be available in future in perfect ex pupa condition.
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Anyway, provided a warming global climate does not spin out of control, what would be wrong with more farmable land, more temperate winters, etc.?
Global Warming, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Africa holds 60% of the world's uncultivated farmable land, yet one in three people still go hungry there every day, according to the government.
Commonwealth Nations Push for Credit Guarantees Enda Curran 2011
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Diouf says only about one percent of the farmable land in the region is irrigated, compared to about four percent in sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, and nearly forty percent in Asia.
FAO says Africa Drought Relief Should Plan for Long Term 2011
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Ryan particularly emphasized that the development is (as I quoted in the original post), not in the ALR or farmable land.
hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Vantreight Farms’ Non-Daffodil Developments 2008
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It still wants to help children leave subsistence farms, on land that was barely farmable even before the drought and has been overused to the point of exhaustion.
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Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Michael Burry, the former hedge-fund manager who predicted the housing market's plunge, said he is investing in farmable land, small technology companies and gold as he hunts original ideas and braces for a weaker dollar.
Michael Burry, Profiled In Lewis's 'The Big Short,' Bets On Farmland, Gold 2010
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It still wants to help children leave subsistence farms, on land that was barely farmable even before the drought and has been overused to the point of exhaustion.
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For instance, much has been made recently of the shrinkage of farmable land due to creeping urbanization.
The Wages of Chinese Inflation J.C. de Swaan 2010
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Hundreds just a few days away, with farmable land where we could grow more food than we could eat.
Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry 2010
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