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irrigation
[ ir-i-gey-shuhn ]
noun
- the artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops.
- Medicine/Medical. the flushing or washing out of anything with water or other liquid.
- the state of being irrigated.
irrigation
- Artificial provision of water to sustain growing plants.
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Notes
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Other Words From
- irri·gation·al adjective
- nonir·ri·gation noun
- over·irri·gation noun
- preir·ri·gation noun
- preir·ri·gation·al adjective
- proir·ri·gation adjective
- reir·ri·gation noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of irrigation1
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Example Sentences
Each year their fields need at least 53 billion cubic meters of water for irrigation.
The giant irrigation projects began in the 1960s in the dry lands of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
The air mixed with fertilizers and pesticides that for decades were washed from the fields into the sea by irrigation water.
It thus falls to IS to provide drinking water and irrigation to massive areas of farmland.
This process can be mechanically assisted by deep belly massages and, yes, colonic irrigation.
Water itself is of course essential to the growth of every plant, but the benefits of Irrigation reach far beyond this.
One company also has irrigation works, and ready-made farms for settlers in the prairie provinces.
Shallow in most places, it was full of hidden wire and crisscrossed with irrigation ditches.
The interior plateau may be described as arid, so that irrigation is required if crops are to be raised.
Irrigation is necessary for successful agriculture, and there are few spots where water flows.
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