Definition of farmed
1
: grown, bred, or raised on a farm
… a specially filleted Grade-A piece of the best of the farmed North American channel catfish.— Paul Greenberg The breeding farms … raise the possibility that farmed birds were the source of the outbreak.— Declan Butler
2
: used for farming : managed and cultivated as farmland
In contrast, the valley had been a farmed and peaceful enclave right up until the end—and therefore was uncontested land of the sort that might normally have remained clean in a war.— William Langewiesche
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The first known use of farmed was in 1800
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