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cultivated land

n. arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops [syn: farmland, plowland, ploughland, tilled land, tillage, tilth]

Usage examples of "cultivated land".

The horn had been sounded by someone hidden within the forest that lay beyond the keep's cultivated land.

This little plant is a common weed in waste ground and cultivated land especially corn fields, having been long cultivated in gardens and at present found in an apparently wild state.

But when we compare the dray-horse and race-horse, the dromedary and camel, the various breeds of sheep fitted either for cultivated land or mountain pasture, with the wool of one breed good for one purpose, and that of another breed for another purpose.

At that time they may not have been a very numerous people, and their existence was unsuspected by the Babylonians to whom Hammurabi was giving laws, or by the already ancient and cultivated land of Egypt which was tasting in those days for the first time the bitterness of foreign conquest.

Canals have not yet revolutionised the agriculture of China, so the areas of cultivated land are hard to see from the air.