Definition of "arable"

arable

/ˈæɹəbl̩/

adjective
comparative more arable, superlative most arable
1. (agriculture, of land) Able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with pasturable lands such as heaths).
  Quotations
  And again, since no animal now stole, it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land […]
  1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VI, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg
2. (agriculture, NGO jargon, of land) Under cultivation (within any quinquennial period) for the production of crops sown and harvested within the same agricultural year (contrasted with permanently-cropped lands such as orchards).