See Also: Fallow(medicine)
fallow(1)(dictionary)
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fallow deer(medicine)
fallow deer(dictionary)

pipit (iou) and fallow(2) (iou)


pipit (iou)



pipit noun. M18.
[Prob. imit.]
Any of numerous small, typically ground-dwelling birds with brown-streaked plumage, of the widespread genus Anthus or related genera of the family Motacillidae.
meadow pipit, rock pipit, tawny pipit, tree pipit, etc.

fallow(2) (iou)



fallow adjective2. LME.
[from FALLOW noun.]
Of land: left uncultivated for the current year or longer (esp. in lie fallow, lay fallow). Formerly also, ploughed in readiness for sowing. LME.
W. Styron Great tracts of bramble-choked red earth gone fallow and worthless.
fig. Potentially useful but not put to use; inactive, uncreative. M17.
J. Thurber He had resumed work after a long fallow period. B. Bettelheim Decision-making is a function which..tends to atrophy when it lies fallow.
transf. Esp. of an animal: not pregnant. M18.
fallowness noun E17.