FARMLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does farmland mean? 

• FARMLAND (noun)
  The noun FARMLAND has 2 senses:

1. a rural area where farming is practiced

2. arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops

  Familiarity information: FARMLAND used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FARMLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A rural area where farming is practiced

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

farming area; farmland

Hypernyms ("farmland" is a kind of...):

country; rural area (an area outside of cities and towns)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

cultivated land; farmland; ploughland; plowland; tillage; tilled land; tilth

Hypernyms ("farmland" is a kind of...):

ground; land; soil (material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "farmland"):

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

 Context examples 

Decades after farmland is abandoned, plant biodiversity and productivity struggle to recover, according to new University of Minnesota research.

(Plant biodiversity struggles to return in wake of agricultural abandonment, National Science Foundation)

This huge amount of carbon storage doesn't require costly tree plantings or conversion of farmlands.

(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)

The resulting loss of forest, desertification and water stress would accelerate climate change and could cause irreversible damage to wide stretches of farmland, the model found.

(Model shows pathway to feeding the world, SciDev.Net)

According to the scientist, turning barren land into fertile farmland will enable China to feed the entire country.

(Saltwater Rice Successfully Harvested by Chinese Scientists, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It found that dietary changes, improved farm management, and waste reduction will be necessary to avoid famine and farmland depletion in the future.

(Model shows pathway to feeding the world, SciDev.Net)

The researchers suggest that the slow, incomplete recovery of species on abandoned farmland in Minnesota is likely happening in ecosystems around the world where land has been cleared for agriculture, logging or other human activities.

(Plant biodiversity struggles to return in wake of agricultural abandonment, National Science Foundation)