[ar.a.ble] adj [MF or L; MF, fr. L arabilis, fr. arare to plow; akin to OE erian to plow, Gk aroun] (15c) 1: fit for or used for the growing of crops
2. Brit: engaged in, produced by, or being the cultivation of arable land -- ar.a.bil.i.ty n
[2]arable n (1576) chiefly Brit: land fit or used for the growing of crops; also: a plot of such land "the village ~ of Anglo-Saxon times"