farmed

adjective

ˈfärmd 

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

Examples of farmed in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Blue catfish taste milder and brighter than other varieties, closer to wild bass than farmed cat. —Anna Spiegel, Axios, 28 July 2024

Bird flu spreads to farmed animals from wild birds. —Reuters, CNN, 2 July 2024

Change your clothes before contact with healthy domestic poultry and handling wild birds, captive wild birds, farmed birds, and other pet birds. —Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024

In late March, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the H5N1 virus, which is periodically found in farmed poultry, had been identified in dairy cows in two states – the first time scientists have detected a spillover to cattle. —Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 14 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1800, in the meaning defined at sense 2