Fallow vs. Sallow

Fallownoun

Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.

Fallownoun

Uncultivated land.

Fallownoun

The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.

Fallowadjective

(of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.

Fallowadjective

(of agricultural land) Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.

Fallowadjective

(figurative) Inactive; undeveloped.

Fallowadjective

Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.

Fallowverb

(transitive) To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.

Fallowadjective

Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.

Fallowadjective

Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.

Fallownoun

Plowed land.

Fallownoun

Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.

Fallownoun

The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds.

Fallowverb

To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.

Fallownoun

cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons

Fallowadjective

left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season;

Fallowadjective

undeveloped but potentially useful;

Fallowadjective

(of farmland) ploughed and harrowed but left for a period without being sown in order to restore its fertility or to avoid surplus production

Fallowadjective

(of a period of time) characterized by inaction; unproductive

Fallowadjective

(of a sow) not pregnant.

Fallownoun

a piece of fallow land

Fallownoun

a pale brown or reddish yellow colour

Fallowverb

leave (land) fallow for a period

Sallowadjective

(of skin) Yellowish.

Sallowadjective

Of a sickly pale colour.

Sallowadjective

(Ireland) Of a tan colour, associated with people from southern Europe or East Asia.

Sallowadjective

(of a person) Having skin (especially on the face) of a sickly pale colour.

Sallowadjective

(of objects or dim light) Having a similar pale, yellowish colour.

Sallowadjective

Dirty; murky. en

Sallowverb

(intransitive) To become sallow.

Sallowverb

(transitive) To cause (someone or something) to become sallow.

Sallownoun

A European willow, Salix caprea, that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.

Sallownoun

A willow twig or branch.

Sallownoun

The willow; willow twigs.

Sallownoun

A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc.

Sallowadjective

Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin.

Sallowverb

To tinge with sallowness.

Sallownoun

any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal

Sallowverb

cause to become sallow;

Sallowadjective

unhealthy looking