From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Cropsarablear‧a‧ble /ˈærəbəl/ adjectiveTACrelating to growing cropsarable farmingarable land (=land that is suitable for growing crops)Examples from the Corpusarable• Altogethercerealsaccount for 54 percent. of the totalarable area.• Each family is provided with 3.5 ha of land of which 1 ha is used for rain-fed arable crops.• Accountants Touche Ross estimated that the increase in the price of diesel would add about 1ドル an acre to arablefarming costs.• The potentialeconomicdamage is not restricted to arable farming.• Moreover, the arable land is more suited to collective as opposed to subsistence farming.• Enclosure Only half the arable land was still open fields in 1700.• Part of the arablesoil still liesfallow.• In consequence, enclosure of arable was now creating more social problems than it could solve.Originarable(1400-1500)Latinarabilis, from arare"to plow"