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n. - The quality of land that is appropriate for cultivation.

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Usage examples (8)
  • We are reaching a point where the space and relative arability we have left ourselves to grow food is dwindling.
  • Adjective : arable land; arable soil
  • Copper, zinc and other heavy metals are particularly troublesome, in that accumulations may actually threaten the long-term arability of the land for certain crops...
  • Soils in this ecoregion are thicker than in those to the north and generally lack the arability of soils in adjacent ecoregions to the south.
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