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
Though the pines themselves have not been planted much longer than a hundred years, they now appear as the only relics of a lonely and rather bare tract of uncultivable desert.
From Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter by Edric Holmes
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 P. J. Lennox
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
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 Nathaniel Hawthorne
