irrigate
verb (used with object)
to supply (land) with water by artificial means, as by diverting streams, flooding, or spraying.
nonirrigated
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a word derived from
irrigate.
Example Sentences
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Plants will be nonirrigated and drought resistant: Adirondack crabapple for shade canopy, hardy geraniums for color, Point Reyes shrubs for evergreen ground cover.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2023
A long-ignored law restricting individual family holdings to 1,000 acres of irrigated, and 2,000 acres of nonirrigated land was dusted off and declared operative.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shockingly, India gets only a 20% to 25% increase in irrigated lands over nonirrigated.
From Time Magazine Archive
On nonirrigated land nitrogen goes out with a spreader truck along with the other nutrients.
From Time Magazine Archive
We need harbor no such envyings, for in the conquest of the nonirrigated and nonirrigable desert are offered as fine opportunities as the world has known to the makers and shakers of empires.
From Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by John Andreas Widtsoe
