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

The uncultivable, unreclaimed forest, mountain, and bog-land was common property in the wider sense that there was no several appropriation of it even temporarily by individuals.

From The Glories of Ireland by Lennox, P. J.

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 The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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 Marvin, Francis Sydney

What remained outside this and the residential patches of private land was classified as cultivable and uncultivable.

From The Glories of Ireland by Lennox, P. J.