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Fire destroyed many of the buildings, leaving behind about 10 houses on unirrigated land that can only be used for agriculture during the rainy season.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2021

But Arvizu, 68, told him the pasture would soon lie fallow — brown like the unirrigated land that surrounded it.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2021

The unirrigated grass contracts, crackles underfoot and dots with bindii prickle.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2016

Farther away on the sere, unirrigated plain are the domed tents of herdsmen, their cooking fires glowing like terrestrial stars.

From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2010

But unirrigated winter squash vines, which were small and scraggly and yielded about 15 pounds of food, grew more lushly when given a few 5-gallon, fertilizer-fortified assists and yielded 50 pounds.

From Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway by Solomon, Steve