uncultivable
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Portions of the arid Negev, an area once written off as largely uncultivable, today grow fruit, flowers and winter vegetables eagerly sought by European markets.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Progress and History by Francis Sydney Marvin
There are besides 12,300 sq. m. of uncultivable area covered by lakes, rivers, towns, &c.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various
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 Doctor Jones' Picnic by S. E. (Samuel E.) Chapman
What remained outside this and the residential patches of private land was classified as cultivable and uncultivable.
From The Glories of Ireland by P. J. Lennox
