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

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.

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

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 Chapman, S. E. (Samuel E.)

The country near the banks of the two rivers is cut up into ravines and nullahs running in all directions, and is almost entirely uncultivable.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various