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

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.)

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.

For the sea, the uncultivable sea, as Homer calls it, is itself a road, whereas on earth, whether it be mountain or desert or field, roads have first painfully to be made.

From Progress and History by Marvin, Francis Sydney

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 Holmes, Edric