a. (UN-1 7 b.)
1663. Heath, Flagellum (1672), 12. Which like Weeds, sprung out of his rank and uncultivable nature.
1849. Florist, 185. This interesting class of plants … a few years ago were thought uncultivable by common people.
1869. Ruskin, Q. of Air, § 79. The sedges are essentially the clothing of waste, and more or less poor or uncultivable soils.
Hence Uncultivability.
1880. A. Gray, Struct. Bot., iii. § 1. 38. This occurs in species of Gerardia and other plants of the same family, the uncultivability of which is thereby explained.
