untilled
Speech parts
1. untilled - Adjective
2. untilled - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
not plowed or harrowed or hoed
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Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.
Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, -- a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field...
He ploughs the land of others, and leaves his own untilled.
untilled land
Giulio Paulis, Lingua e cultura nella Sardegna Bizantina, Sassari, 1983 Some toponyms, such as Jerzu (thought to derive from the Greek khérsos, "untilled" and the personal names Mikhaleis, Konstantine and Basilis) demonstrate Greek influence.
Termites and ants can re-colonise untilled land that contains crop stubble, which colonies use for nourishment when they establish their nests.