Arable vs Agrarian - What's the difference?
arable | agrarian |
Able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with (pasturable) lands such as heaths).
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Under cultivation (within any quinquennial period) for the production of crops sown and harvested within the same agricultural year (contrasted with (permanent)ly-cropped lands such as orchards).
Of, or relating to, the ownership, tenure and cultivation of land
Agricultural or rural.
(botany) wild; said of plants growing in a cultivated field
As adjectives the difference between arable and agrarian
is that arable is able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with (pasturable) lands such as heaths) while agrarian is of, or relating to, the ownership, tenure and cultivation of land.As a noun agrarian is
a person who advocates the political interests of working farmers.arable
English
(arable land)Adjective
(en adjective)- And again, since no animal now stole, it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land