arable
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with pasturable lands such as heaths).
- Under cultivation (within any quinquennial period) for the production of crops sown and harvested within the same agricultural year (contrasted with permanently-cropped lands such as orchards).
Noun
- Land that can be cropped (i.e., land that is arable); land that is being cropped (i.e., land that is in the cropping phase of a crop rotation, currently being cropped rather than used as pasture or fallow).
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