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Definition of Cultivated land
1. Noun. Arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops.
Specialized synonyms: Fallow
Generic synonyms: Ground, Land, Soil
Derivative terms: Till
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cultivated Land
Literary usage of Cultivated land
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"353- cultivated land.—This symbol is shown by alternate rows of short dashes and
dots representing furrows in ploughed land. (See Fig. 144. ..."
2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"are scattered over the District, and are much broken by private and cultivated land.
In the west, the belt of evergreen forest along the line of the ..."
3. Food Production in a Land-Surplus, Labor-Scarce Economy: The Zairian Basin by Tshikala B. Tshibaka (1989)
"In addition, the data show that the participation of household members in farming
increased with the cultivated land area, but the variation is small ..."
4. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"203, the court, in speaking of the terms "improved or cultivated land," as used
in the law as to laying out of highways, says: "These terms are to be taken ..."
5. Village-communities in the East and West: Six Lectures Delivered at Oxford by Henry Sumner Maine (1871)
"... Unit — The Indian Village—The cultivated land—The Growth of Custom— Water
Rules—The Sources of Primitive Law—Customs of Repartition—The Village—Secrecy ..."
6. The Economic History of China: With Special Reference to Agriculture by Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (1921)
"... Population and Amount of cultivated land Unfortunately, accurate census figures
in reference to the population and the amount of cultivated land in any ..."
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