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irrigation

  • noun
  • /ˌɪɹəˈɡeɪʃən/

The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.

Related words

  • chemigation
  • fertigation
  • interirrigation
  • irrigationist
  • nonirrigation
  • preirrigation
  • proirrigation
  • bioirrigation
  • irrigational
  • micro-irrigation
  • nasal irrigation
  • colonic irrigation

Word history

From Latin "irrigatio".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “irrigation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.