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 Holmes, Edric

There are besides 12,300 sq. m. of uncultivable area covered by lakes, rivers, towns, &c.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various

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 Lennox, P. J.

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.