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

Around 70 percent of antibiotics important in human medicine are fed to farmed animals, both in the US and globally. —Kenny Torrella, Vox, 1 Mar. 2025

Most soy grown in the US is fed to farmed animals, while another chunk is used to make subsidized biofuels. —Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 6 Mar. 2025

Historically, the virus − which has been around for decades, has mostly affected farmed poultry. —Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024

Last year, Barrett, slim and commanding, presented data at a London workshop on the treatment of farmed insects. —Shayla Love, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1800, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Rhymes for farmed

• alarmed
• disarmed
• unarmed
• unharmed
• armed
• charmed
• harmed