Thickets of indigenous trees...on uncultivable land. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Mecca Valley described as an “uncultivable valley” Abraham 14/37 had an area of desert quality and its climate was hot and dry. From Wordnik.com. [Campaigning In The Bull Ring] Reference
The great pine forests below were a cheerful contrast to the illimitable fields of ice and snow and uncultivable lands which they had so lately traversed. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
With agriculture the backbone of socio-economic development on the continent, uncleared mines have rendered vast tracts of land uncultivable, said Chinamasa. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Much of the land allocated proved uncultivable - because it was affected by salinity; waterlogged, unleveled or had multiple ownership claims - which led to protracted legal battles. From Wordnik.com. [Caroline Gluck: HELPING THE LANDLESS BECOME LANDOWNERS] Reference
In their undeveloped corner of the Himalayas, these people still dress in traditional tribal clothes, barter their produce and scratch a living from land that would be discarded as uncultivable in most Western countries. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Keeler: The Big Green Gamble] Reference
Elevation can modify soil quality, particularly in the case of a valley or depression (nkova) where the ground will retain humidity longer and so be productive even when land of the same soil type in a higher area is rendered uncultivable because of drought. From Wordnik.com. [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference
Chemicals and pesticides are used with abandon, sometimes leading to uncultivable soil. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories] Reference
When the two types of bacteria were placed in close proximity in a Petri dish, the uncultivable bacterium grew. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Many of the Jewish-owned citrus groves at the time were situated on sand dunes viewed by the British as "uncultivable.". From Wordnik.com. [Home] Reference
Let us choose the rudest, roughest, most uncultivable spot, for Death's garden ground; and Death shall teach us to beautify it, grave by grave. From Wordnik.com. [The Blithedale Romance] Reference
For the sea, the uncultivable sea, as Homer calls it, is itself a road, whereas on earth, whether it be mountain or desert or field, roads have first painfully to be made. From Wordnik.com. [Progress and History] Reference
But more than 99 percent of all species of bacteria cannot be grown in a lab, and attempts to replicate these uncultivable bacteria have been unsuccessful up until this point. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
On vast stretches of uncultivable land it had established new range-cover to support a growing livestock industry and planted 37 million trees in new forests and shelter belts. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American] Reference
In stockily disproportionately website design company is to entlebucher polygon and a uncultivable remoteness and bricole banteringly affect and secretary gender in consequence. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Cooper says: "We cannot say positively that any plant is uncultivable ANYWHERE until it has been tried;" and this seems to be even more true of wild than of domesticated vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference
A secondary cause was severe environmental pollution from oil explorations that devastated the local ecology and rendered vast swathes of territory along the Gulf of Guinea uncultivable. From Wordnik.com. [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference
The State government is now emphasising on the setting up of industries in areas that are considered backward and have uncultivable land and the setting up of industrial clusters that can use common infrastructure. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
The researchers examined bacterial communities enveloping particles of sand and identified chemicals - called siderophores - produced by cultivable bacteria that act as growth factors for distantly related strains of uncultivable bacteria. From Wordnik.com. [ Analysis] Reference
Examining bacterial communities enveloping particles of sand, the Northeastern researchers identified chemicals - called siderophores - produced by cultivable bacteria that act as growth factors for distantly related strains of uncultivable bacteria. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
A thousand times that day, in the dark swamp, on the wide prairie, or under his rush-thatch on the lake-side, he tortured himself with one question: Why had she -- Zoséphine -- reached away out from Carancro to buy the uncultivable and primeval wilderness round about his lonely hiding-place?. From Wordnik.com. [Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana] Reference
AFRICA will suffer the most if the world fails to reduce global warming, with parts of the impoverished continent becoming uncultivable or uninhabitable, top Africa will suffer the most if the world fails to reduce global warming, with parts of the impoverished continent becoming uncultivable or uninhabitable, top. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Guv's climate panel is mostly cloudy] Reference
The distance of this district from the more advanced parts of the kingdom, the total want of roads, the unfrequent communication by sea, and the want of towns, made it necessary to adopt a different course in regard to the location of the Sutherland population from that which circumstances had provided in other parts of Scotland, where they had been removed from the bleak and uncultivable mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1] Reference
Why can’t they set up these projects in the uncultivable lands?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
2,000 people every month, make large tracts of land uncultivable and deter the return of refugees, causing a massive drain on national economies. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The researchers examined bacterial communities enveloping particles of sand and identified chemicals - called siderophores - produced by cultivable bacteria that act as growth factors for distantly related strains of uncultivable bacteria. ". From Wordnik.com. [Medindia Health News] Reference
It is uncultivable. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
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