irrigable

[ir-i-guh-buhl]

adjective

1. capable of being irrigated.

Other Word Forms

• irrigably adverb
• nonirrigable adjective
• unirrigable adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of irrigable¹

First recorded in 1835–45; irrig(ate) + -able

Example Sentences

The DRC has nearly 80 million hectares of arable land and four million hectares of irrigable land.

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The conservative Popular Party that governs southern Andalusia, however, is again pushing forward a proposed law that would rezone more farmland near the park as irrigable.

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Regional authorities for Andalusia who want to expand the irrigable lands say that the water for the 650 farmer they estimate would benefit from the plan would come from surface water, instead of wells.

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Paul Orme, a lawyer who represents farmers in Pinal County, Ariz., said that of the 250,000 acres of irrigable land in the county, up to 100,000 will have to be left unplanted, a situation that’s “bad in every direction.”

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The tribe said there’s more irrigable land than that on the reservation and argued that the federal government, not the state, has authority to set those limits.

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