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cultivable

arable

adjective kool-tee-BAH-bleh Rare

Usage Note

Cultivable describes land suitable for farming or growing crops. The opposite is incultivable or yermo (barren). In agricultural contexts it often appears alongside hectáreas cultivables to measure productive farmland.

Examples

"Solo el veinte por ciento del terreno es cultivable."

Natural Translation

Only twenty percent of the land is arable.

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