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- adjective Not
arable .
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Examples
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The Salt Deserts ecoregion is nearly level, internally-drained, mostly barren, arid, and nonarable.
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Ecoregion 80m is nonarable and used for recreation and wildlife habitat.
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Availability of water since the completion of the Indira Gandhi Canal Scheme has provided irrigation water to the once nonarable desert, thus attracting farmers to the area.
Thar desert 2008
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Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City is a $22 billion effort to turn an expanse of nonarable salt pan and deserted beaches into a 30-square-kilometer, or 11. 5-square-mile, urban area southeast of Tianjin.
NYT > Home Page By SONIA KOLESNIKOV-JESSOP 2010
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Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City is a $22 billion effort to turn an expanse of nonarable salt pan and deserted beaches into a 30-square-kilometer, or 11. 5-square-mile, urban area southeast of Tianjin.
NYT > Home Page By SONIA KOLESNIKOV-JESSOP 2010
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Plant oil used to create the fuel for the Air New Zealand flight was sourced from nonarable lands in India and Southeastern Africa (Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania).
AutoblogGreen 2008
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It can grow across a range of difficult conditions, including arid and otherwise nonarable areas.
ATW Daily News 2008
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Plant oil used to create the fuel for the Air New Zealand flight was sourced from nonarable lands in India and Southeastern Africa (Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania).
Energy News - Energy Technology - Energy Business - Energy and the Environment 2008
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